The wounds of nations : horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity / / Linnie Blake.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 223 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- German and Japanese horror : the traumatic legacy of the Second World War. The horror of the Nazi past in the reunification present : Jorg Buttgereit's Nekromantiks ; Nihonjinron, women, horror : post-war national identity and the spirit of subaltern vengeance in Ringu and The ring
- The traumatised 1970s and the threat of apocalypse now. 'Consumed out of the good land' : George A. Romero's horror of the 1970s ; All hail to the serial killer : America's last frontier hero in the age of Reaganite eschatology and beyond
- From Vietnam to 9/11 : the orientalist other and the American poor white. 'Squealing like a pig' : the War on Terror and the resurgence of hillbilly horror after 9/11
- New Labour new horrors : the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity. Zombies, dog men and dragon : generic hybridity and gender crisis in British horror of the new millennium.