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Technology, monstrosity, and reproduction in twenty-first century horror /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Technology, monstrosity, and reproduction in twenty-first century horror // Kimberly Jackson.
Author:	Jackson, Kimberly,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Horror films - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137360267
ISBN:	1137360267 (electronic bk.)

Technology, monstrosity, and reproduction in twenty-first century horror /
Jackson, Kimberly,1975-

Technology, monstrosity, and reproduction in twenty-first century horror /Kimberly Jackson. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: imagining the ends of horror and of humanity -- Meta-horror and simulation in the scream series and The cabin in the woods -- The image goes viral -- virtual hauntings in The ring and Feardotcom -- The image as voracious eye in The Blair witch project, the paranormal activity series and cloverfield -- Memory, pregnancy, and technological archive in Dark water and The forgotten -- The end of patriarchy: defining the postmodern prometheus in Splice and Prometheus -- Conclusion: a new mythology for techno-humanity.

Dealing with a variety of twenty-first century horror films, Jackson examines how the technologically produced and reproduced image functions as a site of monstrous birth. These monsters, threatening and ominous as they may be, represent the possibility for a renewed belief in the reality of the world and humanity's place within it. Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this book examines how the current state of horror - its sense of being at an end, its increasing self-awareness, and its concern with the relationship between media and message - reflects these anxieties in Western culture. Horror films bring them to a mass audience and offer ever new figures for the nameless faceless 'antagonist' that plagues us. At the same time, horror provides material with which to build a different understanding of ourselves, its monsters representing ends but also beginnings.

ISBN: 1137360267 (electronic bk.)

Source: 696906Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

647594
Horror films
--History and criticism.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.H6 / J33 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43/6164

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