The Wounds of Nations - Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity

Explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals and as members of a particular nation-state.

List of contents

Introduction: traumatic events and international horror cinema
I German and Japanese horror - the traumatic legacy of world war two
II The traumatised 1970s and the threat of apocalypse now
III: From Vietnam to 9/11: the Orientalist other and the American poor white
IV: New Labour new horrors - the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity
Conclusions
Bibliography
Filmography
Index

About the author

Linnie Blake is Senior Lecturer in Film in Manchester Metropolitan University’s Department of English

Product details

• Authors: Blake, Linnie Blake
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2012
• EAN: 9780719075940
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7594-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 333 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV