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020 _a9781501336744
020 _z9781501336713 (hardback)
020 _z9781501336720 (electronic book)
020 _z9781501336737 (PDF)
041 _aeng
082 _a791.43/6164
_223
100 _aSchubart, Rikke,
_eauthor.
_918480
245 _aMastering fear :
_bwomen, emotions, and contemporary horror /
_cRikke Schubart.
260 _aLondon :
_bBloomsbury Publishing,
_c2019.
300 _a1 online resource (xx, 372 pages) :
_billustrations
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"Mastering Fear analyzes horror as play and examines what functions horror has and why it is adaptive and beneficial for audiences. It takes a biocultural approach, and focusing on emotions, gender, and play, it argues we play with fiction horror. In horror we engage not only with the negative emotions of fear and disgust, but with a wide range of emotions, both positive and negative. The book lays out a new theory of horror and analyzes female protagonists in contemporary horror from child to teen, adult, middle age, and old age. Since the turn of the millennium, we have seen a new generation of female protagonists in horror. There are feisty teens in The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017), troubled mothers in The Babadook (2014), and struggling women in the New French extremity with Martyrs (2008) and Inside (2007). At the fuzzy edges of the genre are dramas like Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Black Swan (2010), and middle-age women are now protagonists with Carol in The Walking Dead (2010-) and Jessica Lange's characters in American Horror Story (2011-). Horror is not just for men, but also for women, and not just for the young, but for audiences of all ages."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bLondon :
_cBloomsbury Publishing,
_d2019.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess limited by licensing agreement.
650 _aEmotions in motion pictures.
_918481
650 _aHorror films
_xHistory and criticism.
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650 _aHorror films
_xPsychological aspects.
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650 _aProtagonists (Persons) in motion pictures.
_918484
650 _aWomen in motion pictures.
_918485
650 _2Films, cinema
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781501336744?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
942 _cEBK
999 _c13298
_d13298