Culture Wars and Horror Movies: Social Fears and Ideology in post-2010 Horror Cinema. Noelia Gregorio-Fernández and Carmen M. Méndez-García (eds). Palgrave MacMillan, 2024.
Culture Wars and Horror Movies: Social Fears and Ideology in post-2010 Horror Cinema. Noelia Gregorio-Fernández and Carmen M. Méndez-García (eds). Palgrave MacMillan, 2024.
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In this volume, contributors explore the deep ideological polarization in US society as portrayed in horror narratives and tropes. By navigating this polarized society in their representation of social values, twenty[1]first-century horror films critically frame and engage conflicting and divisive ideological issues. Culture Wars and Horror Movies: Social Fears and Ideology in Post-2010 Horror Cinema analyses the ways in which these “culture wars” make their way into and through contemporary horror films, focusing on the post-2010 US context and its fundamental political divisions.
Contents (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53836-0)
Part I White Anxieties: Current Challenges
Hervé Mayer, Black Bodies/White Spaces: The Horrors of White Supremacy in Get Out (2017)
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, The Post-Truth Era and Monstrous Ambiguity in It Comes at Night (2017), The Invitation (2015), and The Gift (2015)
James I. Deutsch, “I Can’t (Don’t) Breathe”: White Veterans and Twenty-First-Century Culture Wars
Donald L. Anderson, The Unbearable Whiteness of Get Out (2017) and Midsommar (2019)
Part II Opression, Abjection, and Race: Black Bodies and Communities
Victoria Santamaría Ibor, “Tell Everyone”: Abjection and Social Justice in Candyman (2021)
William Chavez, “Say His Name”: Candyman (2021) as a Critique of Black Trauma Porn
Thomas B. Byers, “It’s Probably the Neighbors”: Identity, Otherness, and the Return of the Oppressed in Jordan Peele’s Us (2019)
Part III Economic Exploitation and Neoliberalism: Privilege, Class and the Other
Fabián Orán Llarena, The Revenge of the Serves: The Wounds of Neoliberalism in Jordan Peele’s Us (2019)
Melenia Arouh and Daniel McCormac, Preying on the Other: Culture Wars Narratives in Horror Hunting Films
Pablo Gómez-Muñoz, Humans Hunting Humans: Allegories of Cultural and Economic Divides across National Boundaries
Gamze Katı Gümüş, “Obliteration of the Unfit”: Disposable Other Bodies and Economic Privilege in the The Purge Film Series