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This collection focuses on the social forces and ideologiessuch as race, class, gender, religion, and the economythat play a key role in constructing and framing fear, monsters, and the monstrous across a range of films and eras.

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Through an examination of texts from diverse periods and media, Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role that appropriation and intertextuality play in Gothic storytelling. Building on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors demonstrate that the Gothic is a fundamentally hybrid genre.

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This book investigates the philosophical, socio-cultural, and artistic world of Japanese horror through a varied range of case studies, including video games (Rule of Rose), manga (Uzumaki), and anime (the classic Devilman). Film is represented with well-known works such as Ringu and overlooked filmmakers like Mari Asato.

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This book examines the parallels between Italian and Spanish horror cinemas including the cultural features they share, their ability to define distinct identities within the genre, and what the author terms Italian-Spanishness.

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This book explores the interconnectedness of the cultural zeitgeists around the anthropocene and the undead showing how the latter reveals increasing cultural anxieties over who and what constitutes humanity in the twenty-first century and whether it has a place in any possible post-Anthropocene futures.

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Contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen Kings work, ranging from his earliest movies to the most recent, through a variety of lenses.