Amsterdam University Press
Re-Imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media
-
Edited by:
and
Author / Editor information
Dr. Madelon Hoedt is an independent scholar based in the Netherlands. Her research into horror and the Gothic focuses on narrative and embodied experiences, specifically in live performance and video games. Previous publications include Narrative Design and Authorship in Bloodborne: An Analysis of the Horror Videogame (McFarland, 2019); “Gothic Drama and the Uncanny Stage” and “Immersive and Pervasive Performance” (Palgrave Gothic Handbook series, 2020).Lukic Marko :
Marko Lukic is a professor in the English Department at the University of Zadar, where he teaches various courses in American literature, popular culture, and cultural theory. His research interests include the contemporary horror genre and its connection to human spatiality. Recent publications include Geography of Horror: Spaces, Hauntings and the American Imagination (Palgrave 2022), and chapters "Heterotopian Horrors" and "Dark Urbanity" (Palgrave Gothic Handbook series, 2020).
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Frontmatter
1 -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Table of Contents
5 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Introduction: Theorising the Victim
7 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
1. Opening the Gate: Reconfiguring the Child Victim in Stranger Things
19 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
2. Black Death: Black Victims in 1980s Teen Slashers
39 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
3. Beyond Binaries : The Position of the Transgender Victim in Horror Narratives
61 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
4. Through the Looking-Glass: The Gothic Victim in Jordan Peele’s Us
79 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
5. Postmortem Victimhood: Necrovalue in Phantasm and Dead and Buried
95 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
6. The Sad Killer : Perpetuating Spaces, Trauma and Violence within the Slasher Genre
113 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
7. “If this is the last thing you see… that means I died” : A Taxonomy of Camera-Operating Victims in Found Footage Horror Films
133 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
8. Victimhood and Rhetorical Dialectics within Clive Barker’s Faustian Fiction
153 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
9. Pain Index, Plain Suffering and Blood Measure : A Victimology of Driving Safety Films, 1955–1975
171 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
10. Biolithic Horror: Stone Victim/Victimisers in Resident Evil Village
191 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
11. The Potential Victim: Horror Role-Playing Games and the Cruelty of Things
213 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Bibliography
231 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Filmography
247 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index
251