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The Politics of Horror features contributions from scholars in a variety of fields-political science, English, communication studies, and others-that explore the connections between horror and politics. How might resources drawn from the study of politics inform our readings of, and conversations about, horror? In what ways might horror provide a useful lens through which to consider enduring questions in politics and political thought? And what insights might be drawn from horror as we consider contemporary political issues? In turning to horror, the contributors to this volume offer fresh provocations to inform a broad range of discussions of politics.
List of contents
1. "The American Nightmare: Graveyard Voters, Demon Sheep, Devil Women, and Lizard People".- 2. "Horror, Crisis, and Control: Tales of Facing Evils".- "We're Witches and We're Hunting You: Matriarchy and Misogyny in Conjure Wife".- 4. "The Democratic Impulse in Post-Apocalyptic Films".- 5. "Through a Glass Darkly: The Dimensionality and Inadequacy of Political Fear in Stephen King's The Stand".- 6. "The Monsters Among Us: Realism and Constructivism in Vampire: The Masquerade".- 7. "Anxiety in Suburbia: The Politics of Gaming in Neighbourhood 3: Requisition of Doom".- 8. "The Exorcist and a New Kind of American Television Horror".- 9. "Reality TV as Horror: Psychological Terror and Physical Torture".- 10. "Zombie Komiks in a Cacique Democracy: Patay Kung Patay's Undead Revolution".- 11. "...Just as You Will Do to One Another!": Colonialism that Consumes Itself in Warren Publications' Creepy".- 12. "Witches in the South: Past, Present, and in Comics".- 13. "Bring Him the blood of the outlanders!": Children of the Corn as Farm Crisis Horror.- 14. "mother! and the Horror of Environmental Abuse".- 15. "Let the Bodies (of Water) Hit the Floor: Development and Exploitation in John Boorman's Deliverance".- 16. "The Mayor of Shark City": Political Power in Jaws".- 17. "Fear of Founding from Plato to Poltergeist".- 18. "Post-Racial Lies and Fear of the Historical-Political Boomerang in Jordan Peele's Get Out and Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad".- 19. "'The Mother Who Eats Her Own': The Politics of Motherhood in Irish Horror".- 20. "Frankenstein's Dream and the Politics of Death".
About the author
Damien K. Picariello is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina Sumter, USA. He is also the author of
Politics in Gotham: The Batman Universe and Political Thought (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
