Horror in Space

Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6405-7 (ISBN)

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Analyses the space horror subgenre and its rise as a cinematic phenomenon since the 1950s. These essays provide a historical retrospective of the genre's cinematic journey and an in-depth examination of how filmmakers explored the concepts of the survivor, the uncanny valley, the isolationism of space travel, religion, and supernatural phenomenons to terrify audiences within the confines of space.

In sharp contrast to many 1960s science fiction films, with idealized views of space exploration, Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) terrified audiences, depicting a harrowing and doomed deep-space mission. The Alien films launched a new generation of horror set in the great unknown, inspiring filmmakers to take Earth-bound franchises like Leprechaun and Friday the 13th into space.

This collection of new essays examines the space horror subgenre, with a focus on such films as Paul W.S. Anderson's Event Horizon, Duncan Jones' Moon, Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires and John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars.

Contributors discuss how filmmakers explored the concepts of the final girl/survivor, the uncanny valley, the isolationism of space travel, religion and supernatural phenomena.

Michele Brittany is the book review editor for the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and is the co-chair of the Ann Radcliffe Conference held in conjunction with Horror Writers Association’s annual Stokercon. She lives in Glendale, Arizona.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Horror Made in America

John Carpenter of Mars: Space Horror in the Films

of John Carpenter (Ben Kooyman)

The Cold, White Reproduction of the Same: A New Hypothesis

About John Carpenter’s The Thing (Dario Altobelli)

Meteor Madness: Lovecraftian Horror and Consumerism

in the Battle for Small Town USA (Nicholas Diak)

“It (never actually) came from outer space”: Earth-Origin

Threats in Space Horror Films (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)

Part Two: Time and Space in a Sea of Post-Modern Isolation

Nonknowledge and Inner Experience: A Post-Modern Rhetoric

of Space Horror (Gavin F. Hurley)

Out of Space—Out of Time: Looking at the Factors of Time

in Space Horror Movies (Juliane Schlag)

We’re All Alone, Out Here: Isolation and Its Contribution

to Space Horror in Film (Janet Joyce Holden)

That Moon Is Romantic: Duncan Jones’s Dark Fairy Tale (Adam M. Crowley)

Part Three: The Uncanny Body

The Architecture of Sci-Fi Body Horror: Mechanical

Building-Bodies and Organic Invasion from Deep Space to the Anthropocene (Brenda S. Gardenour Walter)

Ghosts in the Machine: Emotion and Haunting in the Creation of the Irrational Robot (Casey Ratto)

Part Four: The Devil Made Me Betwixt and Between: Magic, Science and the Devil’s Place in Outer Space (Andrew P. Williams)

Under the Influence: Undead Planets and Vampiric Dreamworlds in Outer Space (Simon Bacon)

Part Five: Play It Again or Rip It Off

A “family of displaced figures”: Posthumanism and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien Resurrection (1997) (Charles W. Reick)

Galaxies of Terror in a Knock-Off Universe: Atavism and the Rip-Off Body Horror of “Aliensploitation” Films (Jason Davis)

Leprechaun 4 and Jason X: Camp, Paracinema and the Postmodern Sequel (Kevin Chabot)

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.11.2017
Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-6405-6 / 1476664056
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6405-7 / 9781476664057
Zustand	Neuware