TY  - BOOK
AU  - Downes,Ian
AU  - Hoedt,Madelon
AU  - Hurley,Gavin F.
AU  - Jurković,Irena
AU  - Lukic,Marko
AU  - Lukić,Marko
AU  - Matek,Ljubica
AU  - Pagnoni Berns,Fernando Gabriel
AU  - Platts,Todd K.
AU  - Scott,Lindsey
AU  - Seller,Merlyn
AU  - Stock,Michael J.T.
AU  - Turner,Peter
TI  - Re-Imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media
T2  - Horror and Gothic Media Cultures
SN  - 9789048555147
AV  - PN1995.9.H6 R45 2024
U1  - 791.43/6164 23/eng/20240201
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Horror films
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Horror tales
KW  - Victims in motion pictures
KW  - AUP Wetenschappelijk
KW  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Art and Material Culture
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Fan and Audience Studies
KW  - Film, Media, and Communication
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Horror studies, victim, audience
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction: Theorising the Victim --; 1. Opening the Gate: Reconfiguring the Child Victim in Stranger Things --; 2. Black Death: Black Victims in 1980s Teen Slashers --; 3. Beyond Binaries : The Position of the Transgender Victim in Horror Narratives --; 4. Through the Looking-Glass: The Gothic Victim in Jordan Peele’s Us --; 5. Postmortem Victimhood: Necrovalue in Phantasm and Dead and Buried --; 6. The Sad Killer : Perpetuating Spaces, Trauma and Violence within the Slasher Genre --; 7. “If this is the last thing you see… that means I died” : A Taxonomy of Camera-Operating Victims in Found Footage Horror Films --; 8. Victimhood and Rhetorical Dialectics within Clive Barker’s Faustian Fiction --; 9. Pain Index, Plain Suffering and Blood Measure : A Victimology of Driving Safety Films, 1955–1975 --; 10. Biolithic Horror: Stone Victim/Victimisers in Resident Evil Village --; 11. The Potential Victim: Horror Role-Playing Games and the Cruelty of Things --; Bibliography --; Filmography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Despite its necessary centrality within the genre, the concept of the victim has not received much direct attention within the field of horror studies. Arguably, their presence is so ubiquitous as to become invisible—the threat of horror implies the need for a victim, whose function never alters, often becoming a blank slate for audiences to project their desires and fears onto. This volume seeks to make explicit the concept of the victim within horror media and to examine their position in more detail, demonstrating that the necessity of their appearance within the genre does not equate to a simplicity of definition. The chapters within this volume cover a number of topics and approaches, examining sources from literature, film, TV, and games (both analogue and digital) to show the pervasiveness of horror’s victims, as well as the variety of their guises
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048555147?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048555147
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