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Author Blake, Linnie.

Title The wounds of nations [electronic resource] : horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity / Linnie Blake.

Imprint Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, c2008.

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Description vi, 223 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-217) and index.
Includes filmography.
Contents German and Japanese horror : the traumatic legacy of the Second World War. The horror of the Nazi past in the reunification present : Jorg Buttgereit's Nekromantiks ; Nihonjinron, women, horror : post-war national identity and the spirit of subaltern vengeance in Ringu and The ring -- The traumatised 1970s and the threat of apocalypse now. 'Consumed out of the good land' : George A. Romero's horror of the 1970s ; All hail to the serial killer : America's last frontier hero in the age of Reaganite eschatology and beyond -- From Vietnam to 9/11 : the orientalist other and the American poor white. 'Squealing like a pig' : the War on Terror and the resurgence of hillbilly horror after 9/11 -- New Labour new horrors : the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity. Zombies, dog men and dragon : generic hybridity and gender crisis in British horror of the new millennium.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Horror films -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0719075939
9780719075933
9781847791627 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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