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Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts
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Description
Contemporary film and television - and popular screen cultures more generally - are distinguished by their many and varied engagements with history, including participation in worldwide movements to reconcile past losses and injuries with present legacies. The chapters in this collection address themselves to 21st-century screen horror's participation in this widespread fascination with and concern for the historical - its recurrent reimagining of the relation between the past and present, which is part of its inheritance from the Gothic. They are concerned with the historical work of horror's spectral occupations, its visceral threats of violence and its capacity for exploring repressed social identities, as well as the ruptures and impositions of colonization and nationhood.
Trauma is a key theme in this book, examined through themes of war and genocide, ghostly invasions, institutionalized abuse, apocalyptic threat and environmental destruction. These persistent, fearful reimaginings of the past can take many lurid - sometimes tritely generic - forms. Together, these chapters explore and reflect upon horror's ability to speak through them to the unspoken of history, to push the boundaries and probe the fault-lines and ideological impositions of received historical narratives - while reminding us that history and the historical imagination persist as sites of contention.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
280
Release Date:
2025-11-27
Publication Date:
2025-11-27
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1501394444
ISBN13:
9781501394447
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
410 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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