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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kristopher woofter”
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  • Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror

    by Kristopher Woofter ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature
    This study concerns a the dark, sensorial epistemologies emerging from intersections of documentary and horror cinema. From the ineffable subjects of horror documentaries and pseudo-documentaries, to the obsessive chroniclers of mockumentary horror cinema, the films examined here express generalized millennial and 21st-century archival anxiety around an unsettled and unsettling hypermediated ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • American Twilight

    The Cinema of Tobe Hooper

    Edited by Kristopher Woofter, Will Dodson ...
    A master of gritty horror, Tobe Hooper captured on-screen an America in constant crisis and upended myths of prosperity to reveal the country’s internal decay.Tobe Hooper's productions, which often trespassed upon the safety of the family unit, cast a critical eye toward an America in crisis. Often dismissed by scholars and critics as a one-hit wonder thanks to his 1974 horror classic The Texas ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Anthropocene and the Undead

    Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination

    by Kyle William Bishop, Mikaela Bobiy, Aaron Bradshaw, Nils Bubandt, Daisy Butcher, Elana Gomel, Rebecca Stone Gordon, Sarah Lewison, Lars Schmeink, Conrad Scott, Gheorghe Williams, Andrew J. Wilson, Kristopher Woofter, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., Steffen Hantke, Johan Höglund ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both conceptually and in practice involves undead entities from the past that will not die, undead traumas that rise ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema

    Traces of a Lost Decade

    by Paul Corupe, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Peter Marra, Rick Trembles, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, Cory Legassic, Ian Olney, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes ...
    The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a “classical” period or “canonical” mode of horror in the 1930s, especially as represented by the monster films of ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • The Weird

    A Companion

    Edited by Carl H. Sederholm, Kristopher Woofter ...
    Series Book 14 - Genre Fiction and Film Companions
    Weird works unsettle, decentering humanity on a cosmic scale and, at other times, breaking down the human barriers erected around race, class, gender, and sexuality. Featuring a comprehensive editors’ introduction to the Weird as a mode engaging with forms of knowledge, transcendence, and resistance, this collection offers a broad-reaching discussion of Weird fiction, film, art, and thought. Its ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Shirley Jackson

    A Companion

    Edited by Kristopher Woofter ...
    Series Book 7 - Genre Fiction and Film Companions
    From the short story «The Lottery» to the masterworks The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson’s popular, often bestselling works experimented with popular generic forms (melodrama, folktale, horror, the Gothic, and the Weird) to create a uniquely apocalyptic vision of America and its contradictions.With a Foreword by award-winning Jackson biographer Ruth ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Shirley Jackson

    A Companion

    Edited by Kristopher Woofter ...
    Series Book 7 - Genre Fiction and Film Companions
    2021 Bram Stoker Awards(R) Nominee for Superior Achievement in Non-FictionFrom the short story «The Lottery» to the masterworks The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson’s popular, often bestselling works experimented with popular generic forms (melodrama, folktale, horror, the Gothic, and the Weird) to create a uniquely apocalyptic vision of America and ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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