Urban Horror

Author: Erin Y. Huang
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
ISBN: 9781478006794
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In Urban Horror Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal post-socialist China. Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, geography, and aesthetics from Engels and Merleau-Ponty to Lefebvre and Rancière, Huang traces the emergence and mediation of what she calls urban horror—a sociopolitical public affect that exceeds comprehension and provides the grounds for possible future revolutionary dissent. She shows how documentaries, blockbuster feature films, and video art from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan made between the 1990s and the present rehearse and communicate urban horror. In these films urban horror circulates through myriad urban spaces characterized by the creation of speculative crises, shifting temporalities, and dystopic environments inhospitable to the human body. The cinematic image and the aesthetics of urban horror in neoliberal post-socialist China lay the groundwork for the future to such an extent, Huang contends, that the seeds of dissent at the heart of urban horror make it possible to imagine new forms of resistance.

Urban Horror

Author: Erin Y. Huang
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478009101
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Creepy Urban Legends

Author: Tim O'Shei
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429645725
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 18

Book Description
"Describes scary urban legends, including The Vanishing Hitchhiker and The Babysitter on the Phone"--Provided by publisher.

Be Afraid Be Very Afraid

Author: Harold Jan Brunvand
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393326130
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
A collection of over ninety frightening urban legends, arranged by theme.

Urban Gothic

Author: Brian Keene
Publisher: Deadite Press
ISBN: 9781936383443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Previous ed. published in 2009 by Leisure Books.

Folk Horror

Author: Adam Scovell
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800347030
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
Interest in the ancient, the occult, and the "wyrd" is on the rise. The furrows of Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man), Piers Haggard (Blood on Satan's Claw), and Michael Reeves (Witchfinder General) have arisen again, most notably in the films of Ben Wheatley (Kill List), as has the Spirit of Dark of Lonely Water, Juganets, cursed Saxon crowns, spaceships hidden under ancient barrows, owls and flowers, time-warping stone circles, wicker men, the goat of Mendes, and malicious stone tapes. Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful And Things Strange charts the summoning of these esoteric arts within the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond, using theories of psychogeography, hauntology, and topography to delve into the genre's output in film, television, and multimedia as its "sacred demon of ungovernableness" rises yet again in the twenty-first century.

Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends

Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320886
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
A collection of oft-repeated urban legends brings together the best of modern myths, from the stoned baby sitter who mistook a baby for a turkey to the fabulously expensive recipe for chocolate chip cookies.

Post-9/11 Heartland Horror

Author: Victoria McCollum
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317077539
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
This book explores the resurgence of rural horror following the events of 9/11, as a number of filmmakers, inspired by the films of the 1970s, moved away from the characteristic industrial and urban settings of apocalyptic horror, to return to American heartland horror. Examining the revival of rural horror in an era of city fear and urban terrorism, the author analyses the relationship of the genre with fears surrounding the Global War on Terror, exploring the films’ engagement with the political repercussions of 9/11 and the ways in which traces of traumatic events leave their mark on cultures. Arranged around the themes of dissent, patriotism, myth, anger and memorial, and with attention to both text and socio-cultural context in its interpretation of the films’ themes, Post-9/11 Heartland Horror offers a series of case studies covering a ten-year period to shed light on the manner in which the Post-9/11 Heartland Horror films scrutinize and unravel the events, aspirations, anxieties, discourses, dogmas, and socio-political conflicts of the post-9/11 era. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of film studies, cultural studies and media studies, and those with interests in the relationship between popular culture and politics.

Film, Folklore, and Urban Legends

Author: Mikel J. Koven
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810860254
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
From Alien to When a Stranger Calls, many films are based on folklore or employ an urban legend element to propel the narrative. Films, Folklore and Urban Legends explores the convergence of folklore with popular cinema studies and focuses on the study of urban legends and how these narratives are used as inspiration for a number of films. Beginning with a general survey of the existing literature on folklore/film, this book addresses discourses of belief, how urban legends provide the organizing principle of some films, and how certain films "act out" or perform a legend.

Urban Horrors

Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: D A W Books, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780886775483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Nolan and Greenberg have called upon a legion of gifted writers to create 18 powerful nightmare visions that will have everyone double-locking their doors at night and checking under their beds to make sure that no unexpected beings have taken up residence. Includes chillers by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Joyce Carol Oates, and more.