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The philosophy of horror

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The philosophy of horror/ edited by Thomas Fahy.
other author:	Fahy, Thomas Richard.
Published:	Lexington, Ky. :University Press of Kentucky, : 2010.,
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 259 p.) :ill. :
Subject:	Popular culture. -
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780813173702 (electronic bk.)

The philosophy of horror
The philosophy of horror[electronic resource] /edited by Thomas Fahy. - Lexington, Ky. :University Press of Kentucky,2010. - 1 online resource (vi, 259 p.) :ill. - The philosophy of popular culture.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Horror and the Idea of Everyday Life: On Skeptical Threats in Psychoand The Birds / Philip J.Nickel -- Through a Mirror, Darkly: Art-Horror as a Medium for Moral Reflection / Philip Tallon -- The Justification of Torture-Horror: Retribution and Sadism in Saw, Hostel, and The Devil's Rejects / Jeremy Morris -- Hobbes, Human Nature, and the Culture of American Violence in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood / Thomas Fahy -- Making Their Presence Known: TV's Ghost-Hunter Phenomenon in a "Post-" World / Jessica O'Hara -- The Vampire with a Soul: Angel and the Quest for Identity / Amy Kind -- Ideological Formations of the Nuclear Family in The Hills Have Eyes / Lorena Russell -- Zombies of the World, Unite:Class Struggle and Alienation in Land of the Dead / John Lutz -- The Fall of the House of Ulmer: Europe vs. America in the Gothic Vision of The Black Cat / Paul A. Cantor -- From DomesticNightmares to the Nightmare of History: Uncanny Eruptions of Violence in King's and Kubrick's Versions of The Shining / John Lutz -- "Hot with Rapture and Cold with Fear": Grotesque, Sublime, and Postmodern Transformations in Patrick Suskind's Perfume / Susann Cokal -- Shock Value: A Deleuzean Encounter with James Purdy's Narrow rooms / Robert F. Gross -- Making Monsters: The Philosophy of Reproduction in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Universal Films Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein / Ann C. Hall -- Kitsch and Camp and Things That Go Bump in the Night; or, Sontag and Adorno at the (Horror) Movies / David MacGregor Johnston.

ISBN: 9780813173702 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

555651
Popular culture.

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.H6 / P45 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43/6164

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