Waller; Patricia White; Jennifer Wicke; Elizabeth Young; Audrey Yue; and Slavoj Zizek.

List of illustrations

x

Acknowledgements

xi

Introduction: The Field of Horror

1

(10)

Ken Gelder

PART ONE THE FANTASTIC

Introduction to Part One

11

(3)

Ken Gelder

Definition of the Fantastic

14

(6)

Tzvetan Todorov

1848: The Assault on Reason (Extract)

20

(9)

Jose B. Monleon

Phantasmagoria and the Metaphorics of Modern Reverie (Extract)

29

(23)

Terry Castle

PART TWO HORROR AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Introduction to Part Two

49

(3)

Ken Gelder

Vampires, Breast-Feeding, and Anxiety (Extract)

52

(12)

Joan Copjec

Kristeva, Femininity, Abjection

64

(7)

Barbara Creed

`In His Bold Gaze my Ruin is Writ Large' (Extract)

71

(13)

Slavoj Zizek

PART THREE MONSTROSITIES

Introduction to Part Three

81

(3)

Ken Gelder

Introduction to Monstrous Imagination

84

(6)

Marie-Helene Huet

Freaks

90

(7)

Mary Russo

The Serial Killer as a Type of Person (Extract)

97

(17)

Mark Seltzer

PART FOUR MANY FRANKENSTEINS

Introduction to Part Four

111

(3)

Ken Gelder

Production and Reproduction: The Case of Frankenstein (Extract)

114

(14)

Paul O'Flinn

Here Comes the Bride: Wedding Gender and Race in Bride of Frankenstein (Extract)

128

(20)

Elizabeth Young

PART FIVE READING THE KING VAMPIRE

Introduction to Part Five

145

(3)

Ken Gelder

Dialectic of Fear (Extract)

148

(13)

Franco Moretti

The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization (Extract)

161

(11)

Stephen D. Arata

Vampiric Typewriting: Dracula and Its Media (Extract)

172

(18)

Jennifer Wicke

PART SIX QUEER HORROR

Introduction to Part Six

187

(3)

Ken Gelder

Dr Jekyll's Closet (Extract)

190

(8)

Elaine Showalter

Tracking the Vampire (Extract)

198

(12)

Sue-Ellen Case

Female Spectator, Lesbian Specter: The Haunting (Extract)

210

(18)

Patricia White

PART SEVEN ETHNIC MONSTERS

Introduction to Part Seven

225

(3)

Ken Gelder

Vampires in Greece (Extract)

228

(14)

Ken Gelder

King Kong and the Monster in Ethnographic Cinema (Extract)

242

(14)

Fatimah Tobing Rony

PART EIGHT AMERICAN GOTHIC

Introduction to Part Eight

253

(3)

Ken Gelder

Introduction to American Horrors (Extract)

256

(9)

Gregory A. Waller

Introduction to American Gothic (Extract)

265

(11)

Teresa A. Goddu

PART NINE READING SPLATTER/SLASHER CINEMA

Introduction to Part Nine

273

(3)

Ken Gelder

Horrality - The Textuality of Contemporary Horror Films

276

(9)

Philip Brophy

The Terror of Pleasure: The Contemporary Horror Film and Postmodern Theory

285

(9)

Tania Modleski

Her Body, Himself (Extract)

294

(20)

Carol J. Clover

PART TEN LOWBROW/LOW-BUDGET HORROR

Introduction to Part Ten

311

(3)

Ken Gelder

Fans' Notes: The Horror Film Fanzine

314

(10)

David Sanjek

A (Sadistic) Night at the Opera: Notes on the Italian Horror Film

324

(12)

Leon Hunt

Revenge of the Leech Woman: On the Dread of Aging in a Low-Budget Horror Film

336

(16)

Vivian Sobchack

PART ELEVEN NEW REGIONAL HORROR

Introduction to Part Eleven

349

(3)

Ken Gelder

Ghost Stories, Bone Flutes, Cannibal Countermemory

352

(12)

Graham Huggan

Preposterous Hong Kong Horror: Rouge's (Be) Hindsight and a (Sodomitical) Chinese Ghost Story

364

(10)

Audrey Yue

Notes on contributors

374

(5)

Bibliography

379

(22)

Index

401

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