Haunted Homes / / Dahlia Schweitzer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
• VerfasserIn: Schweitzer, Dahlia,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (138 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1 THE SUBURBS --; 2 THE SUBURBAN GOTHIC --; 3 GENDER, HORROR, AND THE HOME --; 4 RACE, HORROR, AND THE HOME --; CONCLUSION --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; FURTHER READING --; WORKS CITED --; INDEX --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781978807778; 9783110753790; 9783110754032; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110739138
• DOI: 10.36019/9781978807778
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dahlia Schweitzer.

Haunted Homes is a short but groundbreaking study of homes in horror film and television. While haunted houses can be fun and thrilling, Hollywood horror tends to focus on haunted homes, places where the suburban American dream of safety and comfort has turned into a nightmare. From classic movies like The Old Dark House to contemporary works like Hereditary and the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House, Dahlia Schweitzer explores why haunted homes have become a prime stage for dramatizing anxieties about family, gender, race, and economic collapse. She traces how the haunted home film was intertwined with the expansion of American suburbia, but also explores works like The Witch and The Babadook, which transport the genre to different times and places. This lively and readable study reveals how and why an increasing number of films imagine that home is where the horror is. Watch a video of the author discussing the topic Haunted Homes (https://youtu.be/_irTEfvtZfQ).