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Journeys into Terror
Essays from the Cinematic Intersection of Travel and Horror (livre en anglais)
Sous la direction de Cynthia J. Miller et A. Bowdoin Van Riper
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Description de l'ouvrage :
Since ancient times, explorers and adventurers have captured popular imagination with their frightening narratives of travels gone wrong. Usually, these stories heavily feature the exotic or unknown, and can transform any journey into a nightmare. Stories of such horrific happenings have a long and rich history that stretches from folktales to contemporary media narratives.
This work presents eighteen essays that explore the ways in which these texts reflect and shape our fear and fascination surrounding travel, posing new questions about the “geographies of evil” and how our notions of “terrible places” and their inhabitants change over time. The volume’s five thematic sections offer new insights into how power, privilege, uncanny landscapes, misbegotten quests, hellish commutes and deadly vacations can turn our travels into terror.
À propos des auteurs :
Cynthia J. Miller, a cultural anthropologist focusing on popular culture and visual media, teaches in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College in Boston. She is the editor or coeditor of twenty scholarly volumes, many exploring the horror genre. A. Bowdoin Van Riper is an historian specializing in depictions of science and technology in popular culture. He is the reference librarian at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, and is the author or editor of a wide range of volumes, ranging from science to science fiction to horror.
Revue de Presse :
"The essays that make up this original book offer interesting and well-written arguments that touch on very different cultural and geographical areas of the globe, thus making this volume very attractive and appetizing to different audiences all over the world. This book will certainly be of interest to film studies scholars and students as well, fans of the various directors’ works and scholars of travel literature."—Dr. Antonio Sanna, co-editor of the Lexington Books series Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors; Cultore della materia, Università degli Studi di Sassari.
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