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서명/저자사항 | White terror : the horror film from Obama to Trump/ Russell Meeuf. |
개인저자 | Meeuf, Russell,1981- author. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (viii, 215 pages): color illustrations. |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Meeuf, Russell, 1981- White terror Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2022 9780253060372 |
ISBN | 9780253060402 0253060400 9780253060396 0253060397 |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
내용주기 | Introduction: whiteness, politics and horror -- Whiteness under siege, Pt. 1: Haunted house films -- Whiteness under siege, Pt. 2: Home invasions -- American dreams: fantasies and social mobility in Dream house and Drag me to hell -- Sad white men and their demons: possession films -- Suffering and reluctant mothers meet their match: horrific children -- Motor City gothic: white youth and economic anxiety in It follows and Don't breath -- Surveilling whiteness: the horrific technology film -- Making horror great again: the horror remake -- Conclusion: horror in the Trump era. |
요약 | "What kinds of terror lurk beneath the surface of White respectability? Many of the top-grossing US horror films between 2008 and 2016 relied heavily on themes of White, patriarchal fear and fragility: outsiders disrupting the sanctity of the almost always White family, evil forces or transgressive ideas transforming loved ones, and children dying when White women eschew traditional maternal roles. Horror film has a long history of radical, political commentary, and Russell Meeuf reveals how racial resentments represented specifically in horror films produced during the Obama era gave rise to the Trump presidency and the Make America Great Again movement. Featuring films such as The Conjuring and Don't Breathe, White Terror explores how motifs of home invasion, exorcism, possession, and hauntings mirror cultural debates around White masculinity, class, religion, socioeconomics, and more. In the vein of Jordan Peele, White Terror exposes how White mainstream fear affects the horror film industry, which in turn cashes in on that fear and draws voters to candidates like Trump"-- |
해제 | Provided by publisher. |
주제명(지명) | United States. --fast |
일반주제명 | Horror films --United States --History and criticism. White people in motion pictures. Race in motion pictures. Race relations in motion pictures. Motion pictures --Political aspects --United States --History --21st century. Motion pictures --United States --History --21st century. Films d'horreur --E?tats-Unis --Histoire et critique. Race au cine?ma. Relations raciales au cine?ma. Cine?ma --E?tats-Unis --Histoire --21e sie?cle. Horror films. Motion pictures. Motion pictures --Political aspects. Race in motion pictures. Race relations in motion pictures. White people in motion pictures. |
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