American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium

INDEX

247 index Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein, 206 abjection, 32 Abu Ghraib, xxvi, 70, 72n13, 79, 156 academic legitimacy, xviii–xx Academy Awards, 16, 119, 155 Adorno, Theodor W., 93 Afghanistan, war in, 97 AIDS, 96–97 Ain’t It Cool News, 103 Aja, Alexandre, x, xii, xxvi, 16–21, 221, 232n1 Alien series, xv–xvi, 187n6 Allen, Tom, 177–78 Alter, Jonathan, 69, 70 American Pie, 88, 89, 99n14 American Psycho, 123, 196 American Werewolf in London, An, 206–7 Andrew, Dudley, 104 Angel (1999–2004), 88 Anguish, 19 anti-Americanism, 79 Applause Pictures, 8–9 Argento, Dario, 22, 71n2, 218n24, 218–19n28 Ashcroft, John, 69–70 Asia Extreme, xxii audience, 4, 11–12; affect, 38–40, 107, 115, 146; behavior, 35–36, 40–41; economics/box office, 45–49, 82–83; gendered, 86–87; meta-awareness, 19, 58–59, 60–61, 63, 105–7, 124, 137, 236, 238 auteur theory, 161–62, 186n1, 188–89n14, 218n27 Aykroyd, Dan, 209 Bailey, Steve. See Hay, James Basinger, Janine, 4 Battaille, George, 18, 25, 33n4 Bava, Mario, 61 Bay, Michael, 81 Beard, William, 166, 167, 169, 173 beauty myth, 95–96 Benben, Brian, 209–10, 214n4 Benjamin, Walter, 221, 224, 232n2 Berardinelli, James, x Bernardini, Craig, xxviii Beugnet, Martine, 32 Biel, Jessica, 82 bin Laden, Osama, 129 Black Christmas (1974), 111–12 Blair Witch Project, The (1999), xxii, 236 Blood and Black Lace (1964), 61 Bloody-Disgusting.com, xi, xxiii body genres, 107, 230 Body Snatchers (1993), 99n17 Boreanz, David, 88 Bourdieu, Pierre. See Thornton, Sarah Bram Stoker’s Dracula, 144 Braudy, Leo, 187n5 Breakfast Club, The, 91–92 Brecht, Bertolt, 84 Bride of Chucky, 44–45, 146 Bronfen, Elisabeth, 124 Brood, The, 170–71 Brophy, Philip, 56n2 Brottman, Mikita, 41, 228 Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), 86 Bullock, Sandra, 94 Bundy, Ted, 136–37 Burke, Edmund, 147 Burroughs, William, 168 Bush, George W., administration (2001–9), xiii, xxiv–xxv, xxxn13, 79, 179 Butler, Ivan, 155 index 248 Cabin Fever (2003), 88 Cameron, Kenneth Walter, 149 Campbell, Joseph, 133 Campbell, Neve, xxi Canada, 169–70, 189n17 canonization, xviii–xx, xxvii–xxviii, 25 Captivity (2007), 36, 72n13 Carpenter, John, xi, xxii, 198 Carrie (1976), 89 Carroll, Noel, 18, 104, 114 Castle, William, 198, 216n14 Castration, 18, 25, 27, 90 Cat People (1942), 90, 206 Cawelti, John, 122 Cell, The, 125–27 Cettl, Robert, 120 Chan, Peter. See Applause Pictures Charmed (1998–2006), 88 Cheney, Dick, 69–70 Cherry Falls (2000), 86, 87, 97 children, demonic, 61–62 Church, David, viii, xvii, xxviii, xxxn8, xxxin20 CIA, 66 Cinéma du look, 16 CJ Entertainment. See South Korea Clarens, Carlos, xix, 156n3 class, representation of, 65, 85–86, 95, 182–84, 189n18 Clockwork Orange, A, 27 Clover, Carol, xviii–xix, 19, 78–79, 110, 144 Cloverfield, xxixn7, 236 Coffman, Christine, 28 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 148 Columbine massacre, 78 Combs, Jeffrey, 203 Conley, Tom, 23 Conrich, Ian, 186n2 Corrigan, Timothy, 162 Cortázar, Julio, 33n3 Cox, Courtney, xxi Coyle, Josephine, 58 Craft, The (1996), 88 Craig, Pamela, xxvi Crane, Jonathan, 39, 80, 166, 180 Craven, Wes, xiv, 16–17, 145 Creature-Feature films, 49 Creed, Barbara, 78–79 crisis, of American horror film, vii–xii, xvii, xxiii–xxiv, 78–79, 80, 235 Cronenberg, David, 58, 71n1, 163, 165–75 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, 50 cult, 163 Cumbrow, Robert, 24 Cursed (2005), 92–93 Curtis, Jamie Lee, 87, 145–46 Dahmer, Jeffrey, 137 D’Angelo, Mike, 137 Dargis, Manohla, 120, 128 Dark Castle, ix, xiii Davis, Blair, xxvi de Laurentiis, Dino, 120, 131 De Palma, Brian, 22, 89 De Voragine, Jacobus, 33n1 Dead Ringers, 187n4 Dead Zone, The (1983), 163, 169 Death Note, 7–8 Death Proof, 227–31 “Deer Woman.” See Landis, John Deleuze, Gilles, 40, 242n5 Deliverance (1972), 85 Devil’s Rejects, The, 44–45 Dexter, 124 Diary of the Dead (2007), 185, 189n19 Dillard, R. H. W., 38 Dixon, Wheeler Winston, 82–83, 232–33n4 Doherty, Thomas, 77, 82, 96 Donnie Darko (2001), 78, 241 Douglas, Mary, 56n2 Dragonfly, 152, 155, 156–57n5 “Dreams in the Witch House.” See Gordon, Stuart DreamWorks, 7 Dushku, Eliza, 86 D-War, 11 Eastwood, Clint, 10, 120 Ebert, Roger, xviii, 35, 37 Edelstein, David, xxixn7 Edmundson, Mark, xxxn13 8mm, 59, 61, 65 Elephant (2003), 77–78, 94 Epstein, Su, 119 index 249 Eurotrip (2004), 79 eXistenZ, 186–87n3 Exorcist, The, 151 exploitation film, 79–80, 120, 137, 163, 221–32 Eyes Without a Face (1959...