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Make America Hate Again
Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear
Edited by Victoria Mccollum
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Book Presentation:
Horror films have traditionally sunk their teeth into straitened times, reflecting, expressing and validating the spirit of the epoch, and capitalising on the political and cultural climate in which they are made. This book shows how the horror genre has adapted itself to the transformation of contemporary American politics and the mutating role of traditional and new media in the era of Donald Trump’s Presidency of the United States. Exploring horror’s renewed potential for political engagement in a socio-political climate characterised by the angst of civil conflict, the deception of ‘alternative facts’ and the threat of nuclear or biological conflict and global warming, Make America Hate Again examines the intersection of film, politics, and American culture and society through a bold critical analysis of popular horror (films, television shows, podcasts and online parodies), such as 10 Cloverfield Lane, American Horror Story, Don’t Breathe, Get Out, Hotel Transylvania 2, Hush, It, It Comes at Night, South Park, The Babadook, The Walking Dead, The Woman, The Witch and Twin Peaks: The Return. The first major exploration of the horror genre through the lens of the Trump era, it investigates the correlations between recent, culturally meaningful horror texts, and the broader culture within which they have become gravely significant. Offering a rejuvenating, optimistic, and positive perspective on popular culture as a site of cultural politics, Make America Hate Again will appeal to scholars and students of American studies, film and media studies, and cultural studies.
About the Author:
Victoria McCollum is Lecturer in Cinematic Arts at the Ulster University, UK. She is the author of Post-9/11 Heartland Horror: Rural Horror Films in an Era of Urban Terrorism and the co-editor of HBO’s Original Voices: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Power and Alternative Media in Contemporary Turkey: Sustainability, Activism and Resistance.
Press Reviews:
‘McCollum’s standout edited collection is the first full-length study of the horror genre through the lens of the Trump era, offering a positive, progressive and pioneering perspective on popular culture as a site of cultural politics within a period that many would otherwise deem depressed, angered, paranoid and hopeless … McCollum’s study is an exceptionally brave and important piece of timely scholarship; one that will remain at the forefront of our imaginations as we move into a newly cast segment of the same American horror story.’ - Harriet Stilley, European Journal of American Culture
'Including detailed and thought-provoking analysis, this collection is a worthwhile read.' - S. Pepper, Northeastern Illinois University, CHOICE
See the publisher website: Routledge
> From the same author:
Blumhouse Productions (2022)
The New House of Horror
Dir. Todd K. Platts, Victoria Mccollum and Mathias Clasen
Post-9/11 Heartland Horror (2020)
Rural horror films in an era of urban terrorism
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American Culture and Politics in the Cold War and After Through the Projector Lens
What Ought to Scare You (2024)
Affect and Hollywood Horror Discourses, 1922–1968
Monstrous Things (2022)
Essays on Ghosts, Vampires, and Things That Go Bump in the Night
Primal Roots of Horror Cinema (2019)
Evolutionary Psychology and Narratives of Fear
Found Footage Horror Films (2014)
Fear and the Appearance of Reality
Fear Itself (2009)
Horror on Screen and in Reality During the Depression and World War II
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