Fear Essays on the Meaning and Experience of Fear

by Hebblethwaite, Kate; McCarthy, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9781846820700
• ISBN10: 1846820707
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-22
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

Fear: Aspects of an emotion examines the effect of fear on the human experience and the ways in which its manifestation has shaped the creative and social imagination. Contents include: Frank Furedi (U Kent), Our culture of fear --- Ian Haywood (Roehampton University), The Irish rebellion of 1798 and tropes of violence --- E. McCarthy (TCD), American����ad culture and war propaganda --- John-Paul Colgan (TCD), The politics of fear and ethics of representing 9/11 --- Bill Durodi���¨ (Cranfield U), Lessons from the Blitz and other disasters --- Darryl Jones (TCD), The fiction of the American neo-Nazi movement --- Amanda Piesse (TCD), Childhood fears and children's literature --- Gary O'Reilly (UCD), Anxiety disorders in childhood and the therapeutic use of stories --- Sir Christoper Frayling (Royal College of Art), 'The����Nightmare': Fuseli to Frankenstein and beyond --- K. Hebblethwaite (TCD), Debunking the legend of Leap --- Bernice Murphy (TCD), Why horror films aren't scary anymore

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
Towards a sociology of fear	p. 18
Fearing to speak: fear and the 1798 rebellion in the nineteenth century	p. 31
Die gelbe gefahr, le peril jaune, the yellow peril: the geopolitics of a fear	p. 47
'Advertising to victory': American ad culture and propaganda in the wake of World War I	p. 60
'Chaos. Bloody fucking chaos.' GB84 and counter-insurgency	p. 78
'Is this art or assault?' the politics of fear and the ethics of representing 9/11	p. 91
Hunters and patriots: the fiction of the American neo-Nazi movement	p. 103
Fear in an age without meaning	p. 123
The Young Buddha's mystery trip	p. 137
'Something under the bed is drooling': the mediation of fear through the rhetoric of fantasy in literature for children	p. 145
Don't turn around: the embodiment of disorientation in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves	p. 158
The erroneous Elemental: (de)constructing the legend of Leap	p. 173
Dead ends: the decline of the recent American horror movie	p. 188
Freud's nightmare
Index	p. 227
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