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Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts
Twenty-First-Century Screen Horror and the Historical Imagination
Sous la direction de Amanda Howell
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Description de l'ouvrage:
Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts speaks to how a transnational array of recent screen entertainments participate, through horror, in public discourses of history, the social and creative work of reshaping popular understanding of our world through the lens of the past. Contemporary film and television – and popular screen cultures more generally – are distinguished by their many and varied engagements with history, including participation in worldwide movements to reconcile past losses and injuries with present legacies. The chapters in this collection address themselves to 21st-century screen horror's participation in this widespread fascination with and concern for the historical - its recurrent reimagining of the relation between the past and present, which is part of its inheritance from the Gothic. They are concerned with the historical work of horror’s spectral occupations, its visceral threats of violence and its capacity for exploring repressed social identities, as well as the ruptures and impositions of colonization and nationhood. Trauma is a key theme in this book, examined through themes of war and genocide, ghostly invasions, institutionalized abuse, apocalyptic threat and environmental destruction. These persistent, fearful reimaginings of the past can take many lurid – sometimes tritely generic – forms. Together, these chapters explore and reflect upon horror’s ability to speak through them to the unspoken of history, to push the boundaries and probe the fault-lines and ideological impositions of received historical narratives – while reminding us that history and the historical imagination persist as sites of contention.
À propos de l'auteur :
Dr. Amanda Howell is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at Griffith University, Australia. Her most recent publications include special journal issues, 'As if: Women in Genres of the Fantastic, Cross-Platform Entertainments and Transmedial Engagements' with Stephanie Green and Rikke Schubart in Continuum 33. 2 (2019) and 'Beyond Nostalgia: Difference and Discomfort in Stranger Things' with Lucy Baker and Rebecca Kumar in Refractory 31 (2019), https://refractory-journal.com/vol-31. Her co-written monograph, Monstrous Possibilities: The Female Monster in 21st Century Screen Horror, is scheduled for publication in 2021.Dr. Stephanie Green is Senior Lecturer at Griffith University, Australia. She co-edited Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture (2017) with Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bienkowska and David Baker. Her recent papers include: 'Lily Frankenstein: the Gothic New Woman' Refractory (Vol. 28, 2017) and 'Fantasy, Gender and Power in Jessica Jones' Continuum (33.2, 2019). She is also co-editor with Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bienkowska and David Baker of a forthcoming special issue of Continuum, 'Vampiric Transformations'.
Revue de Presse:
"This timely collection considers the uneasy but productive relationship between genres of horror and history. The essays throughout consider multiple ways that horror might shape historical awareness and popular understanding of the past. Horror narratives are means for a society to engage with deep trauma, or to express ongoing pain and suffering as related to historical events. From Zombies to witches, across TV and film, and from the USA to Japan to Serbia, these thoughtful interventions allow us to understand the multiple and complex ways that horror tropes create, challenge, and interrogate historical narratives and authority." ―Jerome de Groot, Professor of Literature and Culture, University of Manchester, UK
"From the historical traumas that scar us to the entities that scare us, Amanda Howell and Stephanie Green's Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts explores the intersections between our pasts and our present, evidencing William Faulkner's observation that history is "never dead. It's not even past."" ―Jay McRoy, Professor, University of Wisconsin–Parkside, USA
"While horror relies on fight or flight responses to actual or imagined threats, as Howell and Green remind us, this kind of viewing is less about being 'in the moment', and more about being drawn and quartered by history. Each chapter reminds us how the genre, like nightmares, amplifies the atemporality of suffering. Whether spun through the metaphor of Penny Dreadful's monsters, the taking of an Aboriginal child's wonder and magic, the sexual aberrations of the ostracized, or homicidal inbred clans marked by deprivation, Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts eloquently dissects the undead nature of collective trauma." ―Terrie Waddell, Adjunct Associate Professor, La Trobe University, Australia
"Amanda Howell and Stephanie Green have compiled an exciting selection of fresh, thought-provoking essays that revisit and expand the critical debate about horror's engagement with trauma and its related issues, such as history, nation, and identity. The contemporary case studies analyzed in this book demonstrate that haunted and violent pasts are constantly challenged and revised through the confrontational lens of the genre itself. This book is definitely an essential contribution to the study of 21st-century screen horror." ―Enrique Ajuria Ibarra, Senior Assistant Professor, Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), Mexico
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