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  • POV Horror

    The Trauma Aesthetic of the Found Footage Subgenre

    by Duncan Hubber ...
    Drawing together strands of film theory and psychology, this book offers a fresh assessment of the found footage horror subgenre. It reconceptualizes landmark films--including The Blair Witch Project (1999), Cloverfield (2008), Paranormal Activity (2009), and Man Bites Dog (1992)--as depictions of the lived experience and social legacy of psychological trauma. The author demonstrates how the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Toxic Nostalgia on Screen

    Undead Memory in the Twenty-First Century

    by Simon Bacon, Sophie Aimée Ahlemeyer, Andrew M. Boylan, John Conlan, Cathleen Allyn Conway, Miranda Corcoran, Aksel Dadswell, Matthias De Bondt, Cristina Diamant, Duncan Hubber0, Kathleen Hudson1, Mo Moshaty2, Paulina Palmer3, Theresa Porter4, Lyz Reblin-Renshaw5, Katharina Rein6, Valeria Villegas Lindvall7, Brandon R. Grafius8, Steffen Hantke9, Kevin J. Wetmore,Jr.0, Dr Reece Goodall1 ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic TitleToxic nostalgia is not a new phenomenon, and instances of an undying past refusing to perish and plaguing the present, can be found throughout history. However, examined in Toxic Nostalgia on Screen, in the early years of the new millennium, it has acquired further meaning and not just applies to a dangerous longing for the past, but a way of being in the ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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  • Corpses, Fools and Monsters

    The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

    by Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner ...
    A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future.In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order — relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters.In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Contemporary Fiction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert Eaglestone ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a fantastic speed. In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the major themes, patterns, and debates of contemporary fiction. From genre, form, and experimentalism to the legacies of modernism and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Why Horror Seduces

    by Mathias Clasen ...
    From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens. But why do they captivate us so? What is the drive to be frightened, and why is it so perennially popular? Why Horror Seduces addresses these questions through evolutionary social sciences. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Found Footage Horror Films

    Fear and the Appearance of Reality

    by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas ...
    As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies.Found Footage Horror Films ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Brainwashing

    The Fictions of Mind Control

    by Seed ...
    An examination of the literary and cinematic representations of brainwashing during the Cold War era“Brainwashing: A method for systematically changing attitudes or altering beliefs, originated in totalitarian countries, especially through the use of torture, drugs, or psychological-stress techniques” —Random House DictionaryThe term “brainwashing,” coined during the Korean War, was popularized by ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Subversive Horror Cinema

    Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present

    by Jon Towlson ...
    Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma--the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Vietnam era, post-9/11--and this critical text argues that a succession of filmmakers working in horror--from James Whale to Jen and Sylvia Soska--have used the genre, and the shock value it affords, to challenge the status quo during these times. Spanning the decades from the 1930s ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Aftermath

    Violence and the Remaking of a Self

    by Susan J. Brison ...
    A powerful personal narrative of recovery and an illuminating philosophical exploration of traumaOn July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, but her world was destroyed. Her training as a philosopher could not help her make sense of things, and ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • The Neuro-Image

    A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture

    by Patricia Pisters ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Arguing that today's viewers move through a character's brain instead of looking through his or her eyes or mental landscape, this book approaches twenty-first-century globalized cinema through the concept of the "neuro-image." Pisters explains why this concept has emerged now, and she elaborates its threefold nature through research from three domains—Deleuzian (schizoanalytic) philosophy, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • To See the Saw Movies

    Essays on Torture Porn and Post-9/11 Horror

    Edited by James Aston, John Walliss ...
    The Saw films, often derided by critics as "torture porn" and an excuse to show blood and gore, are the highest-grossing horror series in cinema history. In view of their hold on audiences and their controversial content, they deserve study. This first collection of fresh essays by academic authors from Europe, America and Australia addresses the cultural, religious and philosophical facets of the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Murder in Plain English

    From Manifestos to Memes—Looking at Murder through the Words of Killers

    by Michael Arntfield, Marcel Danesi, University of Toronto ...
    This is the first book to examine murder through the written word—not only the writings of the killers themselves, but also the story of murder as told in literary fiction and the crime dramas that are now a staple of film and television. The authors—a criminologist specializing in cold cases, written evidence, and forensic science, and an anthropologist who has dealt with the signs and ciphers of ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD