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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 ScottChapter 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. PlattsPart 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. WilloughbyChapter 5. The Myth of the Natural Woman: Horror and Grief in Ari Aster's
Midsommar (2019)
Aspen Taylor BallasPart 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 DeVirgilisChapter 7. Sadness is Rebellion: The Ontopolitics of Queer Loss in Mladen ¿or¿evi¿'s
Život 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 HarrisPart 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
Erica Joan Dymond is assistant professor of English at East Stroudsburg University.
