Technology, Monstrosity, and Reproduction in Twenty-first Century Horror

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-9

3. Metahorror and Simulation in the Scream Series and The Cabin in the Woods

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   Pages 11-30

4. The Image Goes Viral—Virtual Hauntings in The Ring and Feardotcom

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   Pages 31-53

5. The Image as Voracious Eye in The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield, and the Paranormal Activity Series

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   Pages 55-84

6. Memory, Pregnancy, and Technological Archive in Dark Water and The Forgotten

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   Pages 85-109

7. The End of Patriarchy—Defining the Postmodern Prometheus in Splice and Prometheus

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   Pages 111-142

8. Conclusion

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   Pages 143-152

9. Back Matter

   Pages 153-175

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Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this book examines how the current state of horror reflects the anxieties in Western culture. Horror films bring them to a mass audience and offer new figures for the nameless faceless 'antagonist' that plagues us and provides material with which to build a different understanding of ourselves.

• culture
• Image
• memory
• Mythology
• patent law
• production
• project
• reproduction
• Simula
• simulation
• state
• technology
• understanding
• water
• wood

To come.

Kimberly Jackson is Associate Professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA.

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