Horror and Philosophy

Essays on Their Intersection in Film, Television and Literature

Subashish Bhattacharjee, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

283 Seiten

2023
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8760-5 (ISBN)

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Investigates the intersections of horror and philosophical thinking, spanning across media including literature, cinema and television. Using philosophies like posthumanism, Afro-Pessimism and others, the book explores connections between nightmare allegories, postmodern fragmentation, the ahuman sublime and much more.

Horror, no matter the medium, has always retained some influence of philosophy. Horror literature, cinema, comic books and television expose audiences to an "alien" reality, playing with the logical mind and challenging "known" concepts such as normality, reality, family and animals. Both making strange what was previously familiar, philosophy and horror feed each other.

This edited collection investigates the intersections of horror and philosophical thinking, spanning across media including literature, cinema and television. Topics covered include the cinema of David Lynch; Scream and Alien: Resurrection; the relationships between Jorge Luis Borges and H. P. Lovecraft; horror authors Blake Crouch and Paul Tremblay; Indian film; the television series Atlanta; and the horror comic book Dylan Dog. Philosophers discussed include Julia Kristeva, George Berkeley, Michel Foucault, and the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. Using philosophies like posthumanism, Afro-Pessimism and others, it explores connections between nightmare allegories, postmodern fragmentation, the ahuman sublime and much more.

Subashish Bhattacharjee is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Bengal, India. He edits the interdisciplinary online journal The Apollonian, and is an editor for the journal Muse India. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is a professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)—Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Argentina), where he teaches courses on international horror film.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Subashish Bhattacharjee

Part 1: Postmodernist Storytelling

The Rhetoric of Contemplative Horror: Inquiry, Discovery, and Optimism

Gavin F. Hurley

Nightmare Allegory: Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!

Brian Brems

Inland Empire and Reconciling Postmodern Fragmentation

Dennin Ellis

“It’s all a movie”: Postmodern Parody, Media, and Violence in Scream

Douglas Rasmussen

Part 2: Literary Horrors, Philosophical Inquiries

The Disembodied Voice and Its Digital Dreaming: CCRU as Philosopher(s?) and Author

Sara Powell

Borges’s Defense of Berkeley’s Idealism in “There Are More Things”

Andrés Torres-Scott

Horror of Decision-Making: Aspects of Peter Zapffe’s Existential Pessimism in Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter

Maria Lehtimäki

Epistemologies of Horror and Narrative Construction: Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts, Scott Thomas’s Kill Creek, and Clay McLeod Chapman’s The Remaking

Alissa Burger

Part 3: Subhuman, Animality, Colonialism—The Horrors of the Other

The Horror of X: Speculative Virontology and the Ahuman Sublime in Todd Verow’s Bottom

Andrija Filipović

Four Men Before the Imminent: Death and Heroism in Bone Tomahawk

Emiliano Aguilar

Greed Is NOT Good: A Historical Materialist Reading of Two Indian Films: Rahi Anil Barve’s Tumbbad and Satyajit Ray’s Monihara

Joe Varghese Yeldho, Amarjeet Nayak, and Mehboobun Nahar Milky

The Lure of Folk Horror: Ari Aster’s Midsommar

Priyanka Kapoor

Entering the Ecosystem: Human Identity, Biology, and Horror

Octavia Cade

Posthumanism, Sexism: Animalizing Ripley in Alien: Resurrection

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

Part 4: Seriality—Comics, Television, Shorts

The Black Universes of Donald Glover and Hiro Murai: Woke Horror Cinema, Existential Pessimisms, and the Shadowy Speculations of Blackness in “This Is America” and Atlanta

David John Boyd

Moral Relativism and the Horror of Self in Season 2 of AMC’s The Walking Dead

Scott Pearce

The Horror Versus L’Indagatore dell’Incubo: The Dionysian Irrational, and Absurd in Dylan Dog’s Narrative

Marco Favaro

Body Horror Behind the Wheel: Mapping the Aesthetics of the Driving Safety Gore Film in Horror

Michael Stock

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.11.2023
Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliographies, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	376 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-8760-9 / 1476687609
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8760-5 / 9781476687605
Zustand	Neuware