Explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the past in a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals …
'The wounds of nations explores the ways in which horror films allows international audiences to deal with the horrors of recent history - from genocide to terrorist outrage, nuclear war to radical political change. Far from being mere escapism or titillation, it shows how horro…
This title deploys trauma theory in its readings of recent horror cinema - offering an entirely new perspective on horror and providing trauma theory with a whole new field of filmic enquiry.
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 impl…
This title deploys trauma theory in its readings of recent horror cinema - offering an entirely new perspective on horror and providing trauma theory with a whole new field of filmic enquiry.
The wounds of nations explores the ways in which horror films allows international audiences to deal with the horrors of recent history? from genocide to terrorist outrage, nuclear war to radical political change. Far from being mere escapism or titillation, it shows how horror …
