Horror, no matter the medium, has always retained some influence of philosophy. Horror literature, cinema, comic books and television expose audiences to an "alien" reality, playing with the logical mind and challenging "known" concepts such as normality, reality, family and animals. Both making strange what was previously familiar, philosophy and horror feed each other.
This edited collection investigates the intersections of horror and philosophical thinking, spanning across media including literature, cinema and television. Topics covered include the cinema of David Lynch; Scream and Alien: Resurrection; the relationships between Jorge Luis Borges and H. P. Lovecraft; horror authors Blake Crouch and Paul Tremblay; Indian film; the television series Atlanta; and the horror comic book Dylan Dog. Philosophers discussed include Julia Kristeva, George Berkeley, Michel Foucault, and the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. Using philosophies like posthumanism, Afro-Pessimism and others, it explores connections between nightmare allegories, postmodern fragmentation, the ahuman sublime and much more.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Subashish Bhattacharjee
Part 1: Postmodernist Storytelling
The Rhetoric of Contemplative Horror: Inquiry, Discovery, and Optimism
Gavin F. Hurley
Nightmare Allegory: Darren Aronofskys Mother!
Brian Brems
Inland Empire and Reconciling Postmodern Fragmentation
Dennin Ellis
Its all a movie: Postmodern Parody, Media, and Violence in Scream
Douglas Rasmussen
Part 2: Literary Horrors, Philosophical Inquiries
The Disembodied Voice and Its Digital Dreaming: CCRU as Philosopher(s?) and
Author
Sara Powell
Borgess Defense of Berkeleys Idealism in There Are More Things
Andrés Torres-Scott
Horror of Decision-Making: Aspects of Peter Zapffes Existential Pessimism
in Blake Crouchs Dark Matter
Maria Lehtimäki
Epistemologies of Horror and Narrative Construction: Paul Tremblays A Head
Full of Ghosts, Scott Thomass Kill Creek, and Clay McLeod Chapmans The
Remaking
Alissa Burger
Part 3: Subhuman, Animality, ColonialismThe Horrors of the Other
The Horror of X: Speculative Virontology and the Ahuman Sublime in Todd
Verows Bottom
Andrija Filipovi
Four Men Before the Imminent: Death and Heroism in Bone Tomahawk
Emiliano Aguilar
Greed Is NOT Good: A Historical Materialist Reading of Two Indian Films: Rahi
Anil Barves Tumbbad and Satyajit Rays Monihara
Joe Varghese Yeldho, Amarjeet Nayak, and Mehboobun Nahar Milky
The Lure of Folk Horror: Ari Asters Midsommar
Priyanka Kapoor
Entering the Ecosystem: Human Identity, Biology, and Horror
Octavia Cade
Posthumanism, Sexism: Animalizing Ripley in Alien: Resurrection
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Part 4: SerialityComics, Television, Shorts
The Black Universes of Donald Glover and Hiro Murai: Woke Horror Cinema,
Existential Pessimisms, and the Shadowy Speculations of Blackness in This Is
America and Atlanta
David John Boyd
Moral Relativism and the Horror of Self in Season 2 of AMCs The Walking
Dead
Scott Pearce
The Horror Versus LIndagatore dellIncubo: The Dionysian Irrational, and
Absurd in Dylan Dogs Narrative
Marco Favaro
Body Horror Behind the Wheel: Mapping the Aesthetics of the Driving Safety
Gore Film in Horror
Michael Stock
About the Contributors
Index
Subashish Bhattacharjee is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Bengal, India. He edits the interdisciplinary online journal The Apollonian, and is an editor for the journal Muse India. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is a professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)Facultad de Filosofķa y Letras (Argentina), where he teaches courses on international horror film.
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