The Wounds of Nations Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity

The wounds of nations explores the ways in which horror films allows international audiences to deal with the horrors of recent history - from genocide to terrorist outrage, nuclear war to radical political change. Far from being mere escapism or titillation, it shows how horror (whether it be from 1970s America, 1980s Germany, post-Thatcherite Britain or post-9/11 America) is in fact a highly political and potentially therapeutic film genre that enables us to explore, and potentially recover from, the terrors of life in the real world. Exploring a wide range of stylistically distinctive and generically diverse film texts, Blake proffers a radical critique of the nation-state and the ideologies of identity it promulgates, showing that horror cinema can offer us a disturbing, yet perversely life affirming, means of working through the traumatic legacy of recent times.

ISBN:	9780719075933
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Published date:	01 Jul 2008
DEWEY:	791.436164
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	223
Weight:	406g
Height:	216mm
Width:	138mm
Spine width:	25mm

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