Overview
- Explores politicized representations of gender in contemporary U.S. horror movies
- Examines diverse topics relating to gender in horror, including religion, transnational issues, and ecocritical
- Highlights the vibrancy and complexity that characterizes the study of issues of gender in the horror genre
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About this book
Navigating a polarized society in their representation of social values, twenty-first-century horror films critically frame conflicting and divisive ideological issues. Culture Wars and Horror Movies: Gender Debates in post-2010 US Horror Cinema analyses the ways in which these “culture wars” make their way into gender, focusing on the post-2010 US context and its fundamental political divisions.
Approaching these topics from feminist and postfeminist theories to ecocritical views, this volume explores how contemporary horror movies engage with the current context of “culture wars.”
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Gender(ed) Anxieties
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Noelia Gregorio-Fernández is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the International University of La Rioja, Spain. She was a visiting scholar at the CSER at Columbia University, New York (USA), and is the author of The Rebel of Chicano Cinema: Robert Rodriguez in the Transnational Era (2020).
Carmen M. Méndez-García is an Associate Professor of American Literature at the Department of English Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). Current research and teaching interests include twentieth and twenty-first-century U.S. literature, postmodernism and contemporary fiction, the Countercultures in the U.S., Spatial studies, Gender studies, and Medical Humanities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Culture Wars and Horror Movies
Book Subtitle: Gender Debates in Post-2010’s US Horror Cinema
Editors: Noelia Gregorio-Fernández, Carmen M. Méndez-García
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53278-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53277-1Published: 02 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53280-1Due: 06 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53278-8Published: 01 April 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 224
Topics: Genre, Media and Communication, American Cinema and TV