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The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century explores the many aspects of the horror genre across thematics and media in the 2020s. Consisting of 21 original essays by experts in the field, this book examines how horror reveals the anxieties around our current cultural moment and how that might develop in the future.
List 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 Media
Carlos Littles
Frontispiece to Part III
Mother [Figure 5]
Gemma Files
Part III: Recognition and Evolution
Chapter 11. The Future of Horror: Evolution or Revolution?
Carina Bissett
Chapter 12. Black Lives Matter Horror
Maisha Wester
Chapter 13. Indigenous Horror in the Twenty-First Century
Jacob Floyd
Chapter 14. "Stepping out of the Closet": The Evolution of Queer Representation and Tropes in Twenty-first Century Horror TV
Natasha C. Marchini
Chapter 15. Involution, Adaptation, Mutation: Horror's Disability Dynamics
Angela M. Smith
Chapter 16. Sympathy for the Candyman: The Politics of the Past in Supernatural Horror
Brandon Grafius
Part IV: Evolving Themes
Chapter 17. The Future Promise for Folk Horror
Mikel J. Koven
Chapter 18. The Rise in Ecohorror and Ecogothic Criticism
Teresa Fitzpatrick
Chapter 19. Undying Earth: Extinction Romances in the Age of Anthropocene
Ian Fetters
Chapter 20. Fear of Infection: Negotiating between Community and Isolation in Gothic Contagion Narratives
Laura R. Kremmel
Chapter 21. The Metal and the Flesh: Techno-liminalities, Bio-subversion, and the Enhanced Super-Body as a Horror Space
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
About the author
Edited by Simon Bacon - Contributions by Carina Bissett; M. Keith Booker; John Edgar Browning; Kevin Corstorphine; Ian Fetters; Gemma Files; Teresa Fitzpatrick; Jacob Floyd; Brandon R. Grafius; Neil Jackson; Mikel J. Koven; Laura R. Kremmel; Carlos Little
Summary
The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century explores the many aspects of the horror genre across thematics and media in the 2020s. Consisting of 21 original essays by experts in the field, this book examines how horror reveals the anxieties around our current cultural moment and how that might develop in the future.
