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A Silent Scream: An Approach to "King Kong" and the Evolution of the Contemporary American Imaginary (Paperback, New edition)
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A Silent Scream: An Approach to "King Kong" and the Evolution of the Contemporary American Imaginary (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Studien zum Theater, Film und Fernsehen / Studies in Theatre, Film and Television, 47
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This book describes the main characteristics that define the
emotion of fear, its dimensions, functions, types, and social and
individual meanings. It also shows that fear represents a desire to
eliminate the Other and that horror films have their origin
precisely in crisis and fear, which gives it a fundamentally
xenophobic nature. This is demonstrated in the book through the
analysis of the four most important versions of the King Kong myth:
1933, 1976, 2005 and 2017. These versions are the result of the
fear of the Other that was generated by particular crises in US
society: the stock market crash of 1929, the 1970s energy crisis,
9/11 and the military intervention in Iraq in 2003 and its
consequences. These conflicts also led to psychological and
sociological effects that created a desire for escape that King
Kong's films manifest.
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