Thomas Richard Fahy

FYI Review - This book contains the following essays:
-Horror and the Idea of Everyday Life: On Skeptical Threats in Psycho and The Birds by Philip J. Nickel
-Through a Mirror, Darkly: Art-Horror as a Medium for Moral Reflection by Philip Tallon
-The Justification for Torture-Horror: Retribution and Sadism in Saw, Hostel and The Devil's Rejects by Jeremy Morris
-Hobbes, Human Nature, and the Culture of American Violence in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood by Thomas Fahy
-Making Their Presence Known: TV's Ghost-Hunter Phenomenon in a "Post" World by Jessica O'Hara
-The Vampire with a Soul: Angel and the Quest for Identity by Amy Kind
-Ideological Formations of the Nuclear Family in The Hills Have Eyes by Lorena Russell
-Zombies of the World, Unite: Class Struggle and Alienation in Land of the Dead by John Lutz
-The Fall of the House of Ulmer: Europe vs. America in the Gothic Vision of The Black Cat by Paul A. Canter
-From Domestic Violence to the Nightmare of History: Uncanny Eruptions of Violence in King's and Kubrick's Versions of The Shining by John Lutz
-"Hot with Rapture and Cold with Fear": Grotesque, Sublime and Postmodern Transformations of Patrick Suskind's Perfume by Susann Cokal
-Shock Value: A Deleuzean Encounter with James Purdy's Narrow Rooms by Robert F. Gross
-Making Monsters: The Philosophy of Reproduction in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Universa Films Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein by Ann C. Hall
-Kitsch and Camp and Things That Go Bump in the Dark; or, Sontag and Adorno at the (Horror) Movies by David MacGregor Johnston… (mehr)