Overview
- Explores the transnational character of horror and the excessive bodies that populate this global genre
- Examines the manner in which the global grotesque stretches definitions of bodies, genre and nation
- Takes a new approach to the way horror is addressed as a film genre
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Horrific Body (Disability and Horror)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sophia Siddique is Associate Professor in the Department of Film at Vassar College, USA. Her research interests include Singapore cultural studies; representations of trauma and memory in Cambodian, Indonesian and Thai cinema; and the impact of new media on Southeast Asia’s moving image culture. Sophia teaches film history, contemporary Southeast Asian Cinemas and genres (horror and science fiction).
Raphael Raphael lectures at the Center for Disability Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he is also Associate Editor of The Review of Disability Studies. He is co-editor of Transnational Stardom: International Celebrity in Film and Culture (2013). His film and media scholarship is also informed by his practice as digital artist.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnational Horror Cinema
Book Subtitle: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque
Editors: Sophia Siddique, Raphael Raphael
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58417-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58416-8Published: 06 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58417-5Published: 24 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 246
Number of Illustrations: 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Genre, Sociology of the Body, Culture and Gender, Cultural Theory, Global Cinema and TV