Transnational Horror Across Visual Media (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Strayer, Kirsten

ISBN 10: 1138549002 / ISBN 13: 9781138549005

Published by Routledge, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transnational Horror Across Visual Media (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138549002
• ISBN 13: 9781138549005
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and different media forms, illustrating the ways that horror can be theorized through the circulation, reception, and production of transnational media texts. Perhaps more than any other genre, horror is characterized by its ability to be simultaneously aware of the local while able to permeate national boundaries, to function on both regional and international registers. The essays here explore political models and allegories, questions of cult or subcultural media and their distribution practices, the relationship between regional or cultural networks, and the legibility of international horror iconography across distinct media. The book underscores how a discussion of contemporary international horror is not only about genre but about how genre can inform theories of visual cultures and the increasing permeability of their borders.

About the Author

 Dana Och is a Lecturer in English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She has recently published in Irish Cinema in International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, and in a previous anthology in Genre in Cinema: Ireland and Transnationalism by Routledge Press.

Kirsten Strayer is a Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh. She has recently published in various anthologies and in Literature/Film Quarterly.