Description

The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience’s experience of being in the world at a particular historical and cultural moment. This book not only provides frameworks with which to understand contemporary horror, but it also speaks to the changes wrought by technological development in creation, production, and distribution, as well as the ways in which those who are traditionally underrepresented positively within the genre- women, LGBTQ+, indigenous, and BAME communities - are finally being seen and finding space to speak.

Table of Contents

Part I: Frameworks and Classics of 21st Century Horror

Chapter 1. Horror Theory Now: Thinking About Horror
Kevin Corstophine
Chapter 2. Decadent Feasts: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Twenty-First-Century Prestige Horror Television
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Chapter 3. Horror Cinema and Censorship in the Twenty-first Century
Neil Jackson
CHAPTER 4. The Recurrence and Evolution of Universal's Classic Monsters in Twenty-first Century Horror
M. Keith Booker
Chapter 5. The Remixing (and Ransacking) of Hill House: Surveying the Spectral Presence of Shirley Jackson in Contemporary Gothic Fiction
Joan Passey

Part II: Media and Consumption

Chapter 6. Further Notes Towards a Monster Pedagogy
John Edgar Browning
Chapter 7. Sounding Horror: Ballads, Ring Shouts, and the Power of Music in Black Horror
Erik Steinskog
Chapter 8. The Evolution of Horror on Stage
Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
Chapter 9. Hauntify the World: New Directions in Video Game Horror
Gwyneth Peaty
Chapter 10. The Evolution of Horror and New

Product details

Published 15 Mar 2023
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 340
ISBN 9781978751248
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 6 b/w illustrations;
Series Research in Horror Studies
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Simon Bacon

Contributor

Carina Bissett

Contributor

M. Keith Booker

Contributor

Ian Fetters

Contributor

Gemma Files

Contributor

Jacob Floyd

Contributor

Neil Jackson

Contributor

Mikel J. Koven

Contributor

Carlos Littles

Contributor

Joan Passey

Contributor

Gwyneth Peaty

Contributor

Angela Marie Smith

Angela Marie Smith is Associate Professor of Engli…

Contributor

Erik Steinskog

Contributor

Maisha Wester

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