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Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss examines bereavement as it appears in horror films of the last two decades. This book addresses global hits such as Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth and Jennifer Kent's The Babadook as well as lauded arthouse films such as Lars von Trier's Melancholia and Ari Aster's Midsommar.
List of contents
Part I: Loss and the Child: Grief and Endangered Youth
Chapter 1. Horror at the Crossroads: Mapping the Child's Grief in Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Lindsey Scott
Chapter 2. "We Can Survive This": An Examination of Loss and Grief in Juan Antonio Bayona's Elorfanato (The Orphanage) (2007)
Erica Joan Dymond
Chapter 3. Elevating Grief: Ari Aster's Hereditary (2018) and the A24 Horror Film
Andrew Grossman and Todd K. Platts
Part II: Loss and Gender: Grief and Motherhood/Womanhood
Chapter 4. To Make You Feel My Love: Jennifer Kent's The Babadook (2014), Motherhood, and Loss
Rebecca L. Willoughby
Chapter 5. The Myth of the Natural Woman: Horror and Grief in Ari Aster's Midsommar (2019)
Aspen Taylor Ballas
Part III: Loss and National Identity: Grief and History
Chapter 6. O Father, Where Art Thou?: Grief and Cannibal Culture in Jorge Michel Grau's Somos lo que hay (We Are What We Are) (2010)
Megan DeVirgilis
Chapter 7. Sadness is Rebellion: The Ontopolitics of Queer Loss in Mladen ¿or¿evi¿'sŽivot i smrt porno bande (The Life and Death of a Porno Gang) (2009)
Andrija Filipovi¿
Chapter 8. The Grieving Dead: Haunting and the Haunted in The Spierig Brothers' Winchester (2018)
Racheal Harris
Part IV: Loss and The Known World: Grief and Annihilation
Chapter 9. "No One Will Miss It": Lars Von Trier's Antichrist (2009) and Melancholia (2011) and the World-Without-Us
Michael Brown
About the author
Edited by Erica Joan Dymond - Contributions by Aspen Taylor Ballas; Michael Brown; Megan DeVirgilis; Erica Joan Dymond; Andrija Filipovic; Andrew Grossman; Racheal Harris; Todd K. Platts; Lindsey Scott and Rebecca L. Willoughby
Summary
Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss examines bereavement as it appears in horror films of the last two decades. This book addresses global hits such as Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth and Jennifer Kent's The Babadook as well as lauded arthouse films such as Lars von Trier's Melancholia and Ari Aster's Midsommar.
