The philosophy of horror

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Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky (2010)
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Inviting readers to ponder this genre's various manifestations since the late 1700s, this collection of probing essays allows fans and philosophy buffs alike to ...

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PN1995.9.H6.P45 2010

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The fall of the house of Ulmer: Europe vs. America in the gothic vision of the Black cat.Paul A. Cantor
The Fall of the House of Ulmer.Paul A. Cantor
Hot with rapture and cold with fear": Grotesque, sublime, and postmodern transformations in Patrick süskind's perfume.Susann Cokal
Introduction.Thomas Fahy
Shock value: A Deleuzean encounter with James Purdy's narrow rooms.Robert F. Gross
Making monsters: The philosophy of reproduction in Mary Shelley's frankenstein and the universal films frankenstein and the bride of frankenstein.Ann C. Hall
Kitsch and camp and things that go Bump in the night; or, Sontag and Adorno at the (horror) movies.David MacGregor Johnston
The vampire with a soul: Angel and the Quest for identity.Amy Kind
From domestic nightmares to the nightmare of history: Uncanny eruptions of violence in King's and kubrick's versions of the shining.John Lutz
Zombies of the world, unite: Class struggle and alienation in land of the dead.John Lutz
The justification of torture-horror: Retribution and sadism in saw, hostel, and the devil's rejects.Jeremy Morris
Horror and the idea of everyday life: On skeptical threats in psycho and the birds.Philip J. Nickel
Making their presence known: Tv's ghost-hunter phenomenon in a "post-" world.Jessica O'Hara
Ideological formations of the nuclear family in the Hills have eyes.Lorena Russell
Through a mirror, darkly: Art-horror as a medium for moral reflection.Philip Tallon

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