Animality and Horror Cinema : Creaturely Fear on Film (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature) （2025. xv, 267 S. XV, 267 p. 13 illus., 4 illus. in color. 210 mm）

Herausgegeben:Sands, Peter/ Neill, Mo O'/ Hind, Samantha

SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER NATURE SWITZERLAND; PALGRA（2025発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783031872938

Full Description

Animality and Horror Cinema provides a wide-ranging overview of the role played by animals in the genre of horror cinema. Across four sections that unite affective and generic modes of horror with animals, animality, and the discourse of species, the volume demonstrates the multivalent operation of animality in transnational cinemas that look beyond the trope of monstrous adversity associated with the creature feature. With chapters focusing on the extrusion of animals from horror narratives, the multisensorial dimensions of animal horror, the intrusion of documentary violence, and the horrific contiguity of human and nonhuman flesh, it argues for the concept of creaturely fear as a lens through which to read horror's blurring of the species barrier. The collection appeals to those interested in the intersection of animal and film studies with memory studies, afropessimism and critical race theory, posthumanism, biopolitics, ecocriticism, queer theory and vegan theory.

Contents

Chapter 1: Creaturely Fear: An Introduction.- Part 1: Animal Traces.- Chapter 2: Surrealism and Creaturely Holocaust Killing in Juraj Herz's The Cremator.- Chapter 3: Jordan Peele's Animals: Zoological Horror, Afropessimist Allegory and the Alien Superstar.- Chapter 4: The Animal-Image: On the Uses of Animals in Claire Denis' Horror Films.- Part 2: The Multi-Sensorial Animal.- Chapter 5: A Horror Multiplied by the Eyes of Every House Fly: Compound Misconceptions and Prejudices on Filmic Insects.- Chapter 6: Killer Wail: Colouring Nonhuman Trauma in Orca: The Killer Whale.- Chapter 7: Sound, Silence, Horror, and the Hare.- Part 3: True Story Monstrosities.- Chapter 8: Animal Agency and Animal Sovereignties in Roar.- Chapter 9: Living with Saltwater Crocodiles: Respectful and Reverential Eco-Fear in Dark Age.- Chapter 10: "The Touch of his Hairy Hand Offended You": The Epistemological Indeterminacy of Ted Kotcheff's Wake in Fright.- Part 4: Meat, Sacrifice and Sympathy.- Chapter 11: Made in the Harming: Julia Ducournau's Raw and the Cutting Continuities of Animal Montage.- Chapter 12: Flesh & Negation: Vegan Aesthetics and Sympathetic Action in David Lynch's Eraserhead.