Placeholder text

Go to cart

S(p)lasher Flicks

By Cullen Wade

S(p)lasher Flicks

By Cullen Wade

0 - Default Title
Description
Who's afraid of a midnight swim? This book dissects more than 100 horror films, covering nine decades and four continents, in an engaging exploration of the swimming pool as a site of secrets, sexuality, and social segregation. Drawing from cultural history, aquatics research, and sociological critiques, this work confronts aquatic monsters, suburban aliens, queer vampires, death cults, and bloody vengeance. The author dives into the tension of municipal pools as a health and fitness space with a history of discrimination; the roles of residential pools in community building and enforcing boundaries; and the mixed messages (resentment, alienation, prosperity) conveyed by backyard pools. Horror fans, swimmers, aquaphobics, students of pop culture, and others will find the site of the swimming pool forever transformed by this analysis.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
260
Release Date:
2025-12-11
Publication Date:
2025-12-11
Publisher:
McFarland
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1476698155
ISBN13:
9781476698151
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
496 g
Height:
178 cm
Width:
254 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out