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The Wounds of Nations - Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity (Paperback)
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The Wounds of Nations - Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity (Paperback)
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The wounds of nations: Horror cinema, historical trauma and
national identity explores the ways in which the unashamedly
disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow
audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in
a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we
conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals and as members
of a particular nation-state. Exploring a wide range of
stylistically distinctive and generically diverse film texts, its
analysis ranges from the body horror of the American 1970s to the
avant-garde proclivities of German Reunification horror, from the
vengeful supernaturalism of recent Japanese chillers and their
American remakes to the post-Thatcherite masculinity horror of the
UK and the resurgence of 'hillbilly' horror in the period following
September 11th 2001. In each case, it is argued, horror cinema
forces us to look again at the wounds inflicted on individuals,
families, communities and nations by traumatic events such as
genocide and war, terrorist outrage and seismic political change,
wounds that are all too often concealed beneath ideologically
expedient discourses of national cohesion. By proffering a radical
critique of the nation-state and the ideologies of identity it
promulgates, horror cinema is seen to offer us a disturbing, yet
perversely life affirming, means of working through the traumatic
legacy of recent times. -- .
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