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

CONTENTS

conTenTS vii inTroducTion They Don’t Make ’Em Like They Used To On the Rhetoric of Crisis and the Current State of American Horror Cinema —Steffen Hantke Part One bloody aMerica Critical Reassessments of the Trans/-national and of Graphic Violence 3 The AMERICAN horror filM? Globalization and Transnational U.S.-Asian Genres —Christina Klein 15 a PariSian in hollywood Ocular Horror in the Films of Alexandre Aja —Tony Perrello 35 “The Pound of fleSh which i deMand” American Horror Cinema, Gore, and the Box Office, 1998–2007 —Blair Davis and Kial Natale 58 a (PoST)Modern houSe of Pain FearDotCom and the Prehistory of the Post-9/11 Torture Film —Reynold Humphries Part Two The uSual SuSPecTS Trends and Transformations in the Subgenres of American Horror Film 77 TeenaGe TrauMaTa Youth, Affective Politics, and the Contemporary American Horror Film —Pamela Craig and Martin Fradley vi conTenTS 103 TrauMaTic childhood now included Todorov’s Fantastic and the Uncanny Slasher Remake —Andrew Patrick Nelson 119 whiTher The Serial killer Movie? —Philip L. Simpson 142 a reTurn To The Graveyard Notes on the Spiritual Horror Film —James Kendrick Part Three look back in horror Managing the Canon of American Horror Film 11 AUTEURDÄMMERUNG David Cronenberg, George A. Romero, and the Twilight of the (North) American Horror Auteur —Craig Bernardini 193 how The MaSTerS of horror MaSTer Their PerSonae Self-Fashioning at Play in the Masters of Horror DVD Extras —Ben Kooyman 221 “The kidS of Today Should defend TheMSelveS aGainST The ’70S” Simulating Auras and Marketing Nostalgia in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse —Jay McRoy 235 afTerword Memory, Genre, and Self-Narrativization; Or, Why I Should Be a More Content Horror Fan —David Church 243 conTribuTorS 247 index ...