The Horror Reader PDF (edited by Ken Gelder, Phd, U Melbourne) H.A.

'Gelder is to be congratulated on this selection. If you teach horror then I recommend this, the academic weight here, carefully used, could help students see beyond the gore.' - In The Picture
List of illustrations x Acknowledgements xi
Ken Gelder
INTRODUCTION: THE FIELD OF HORROR 1
PART ONE THE FANTASTIC
Ken Gelder
INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE 11
1 Tzvetan Todorov
DEFINITION OF THE FANTASTIC 14
2 José B. Monleon
1848: THE ASSAULT ON REASON (EXTRACT) 20
3 Terry Castle
PHANTASMAGORIAAND THE METAPHORICS OF MODERN REVERIE (EXTRACT) 29vi CONTENTS
PART TWO HORROR AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Ken Gelder
INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO 49
4 Joan Copjec
VAMPIRES, BREAST-FEEDING, AND ANXIETY (EXTRACT) 52
5 Barbara Creed
KRISTEVA, FEMININITY, ABJECTION 64
6 Slavoj Žižek
‘IN HIS BOLD GAZE MY RUIN IS WRIT LARGE’ (EXTRACT) 71
PART THREE MONSTROSITIES
Ken Gelder
INTRODUCTION TO PART THREE 81
7 Marie-Hélene Huet
INTRODUCTION TO MONSTROUS IMAGINATION 84 8 Mary Russo
FREAKS 90
9 Mark Seltzer
THE SERIAL KILLER AS A TYPE OF PERSON (EXTRACT) 97
PART FOUR MANY FRANKENSTEINS
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INTRODUCTION TO PART FOUR 111
10 Paul O’Flinn
PRODUCTION AND REPRODUCTION: THE CASE OF FRANKENSTEIN (EXTRACT) 114
11 Elizabeth Young
HERE COMES THE BRIDE: WEDDING GENDER AND RACE IN BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (EXTRACT) 128
PART FIVE READING THE KING VAMPIRE
Ken Gelder
INTRODUCTION TO PART FIVE 145
12 Franco Moretti
DIALECTIC OF FEAR (EXTRACT) 148
13 Stephen D. Arata
THE OCCIDENTAL TOURIST: DRACULA AND THE ANXIETY OF REVERSE COLONIZATION (EXTRACT) 161
14 Jennifer Wicke
VAMPIRIC TYPEWRITING: DRACULA AND ITS MEDIA (EXTRACT) 172
PART SIX QUEER HORROR
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INTRODUCTION TO PART SIX 187
15 Elaine Showalter
DR JEKYLL’S CLOSET (EXTRACT) 190
16 Sue-Ellen Case
TRACKING THE VAMPIRE (EXTRACT) 198
17 Patricia White
FEMALE SPECTATOR, LESBIAN SPECTER: THE HAUNTING (EXTRACT) 210
CONTENTS vii
viii CONTENTS
PART SEVEN ETHNIC MONSTERS
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INTRODUCTION TO PART SEVEN 225
18 Ken Gelder
VAMPIRES IN GREECE (EXTRACT) 228
19 Fatimah Tobing Rony
KING KONG AND THE MONSTER IN ETHNOGRAPHIC CINEMA (EXTRACT) 242
PART EIGHT AMERICAN GOTHIC
Ken Gelder
INTRODUCTION TO PART EIGHT 253
20 Gregory A. Waller
INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN HORRORS (EXTRACT) 256 21 Teresa A. Goddu
INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN GOTHIC (EXTRACT) 265 PART NINE
READING SPLATTER/SLASHER CINEMA Ken Gelder
INTRODUCTION TO PART NINE 273
22 Philip Brophy
HORRALITY – THE TEXTUALITY OF CONTEMPORARY HORROR FILMS 276
23 Tania Modleski
THE TERROR OF PLEASURE: THE CONTEMPORARY HORROR FILM AND POSTMODERN THEORY 285
24 Carol J. Clover
HER BODY, HIMSELF (EXTRACT) 294
PART TEN LOWBROW/LOW-BUDGET HORROR
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INTRODUCTION TO PART TEN 311
25 David Sanjek
FANS’ NOTES: THE HORROR FILM FANZINE 314
26 Leon Hunt
A (SADISTIC) NIGHT AT THE OPERA: NOTES ON THE ITALIAN HORROR FILM 324
27 Vivian Sobchack
REVENGE OF THE LEECH WOMAN: ON THE DREAD OF AGING IN A LOW-BUDGET HORROR FILM 336
PART ELEVEN NEW REGIONAL HORROR
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INTRODUCTION TO PART ELEVEN 349
28 Graham Huggan
GHOST STORIES, BONE FLUTES, CANNIBAL COUNTERMEMORY 352
29 Audrey Yue
PREPOSTEROUS HONG KONG HORROR: ROUGE’S (BE)HINDSIGHT AND A (SODOMITICAL) CHINESE GHOST STORY 364
Notes on contributors 374 Bibliography 379 Index 401
CONTENTS ix
Illustrations
3.1 Frontispiece from Phantasmagoria: or, The Development of Magical Deception (1803) 31
7.1 The Ravenna monster, after Boaistuau, from Ambroise Paré, Des monstres et prodiges (1573) 85 11.1 Still from Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 129 17.1 Still from The Haunting (1963) 216 24.1 Still from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) 296 29.1 Stills from A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) 372