Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century. 9781793643391. Innbundet - 2023

The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience’s experience of being in the world at a particular historical and cultural moment. This book not only provides frameworks with which to understand contemporary horror, but it also speaks to the changes wrought by technological development in creation, production, and distribution, as well as the ways in which those who are traditionally underrepresented positively within the genre- women, LGBTQ+, indigenous, and BAME communities - are finally being seen and finding space to speak.

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The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century explores the many aspects of the horror genre across thematics and media in the 2020s. Consisting of 21 original essays by experts in the field, this book examines how horror reveals the anxieties around our current cultural moment and how that might develop in the future.

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Part I: Frameworks and Classics of 21st Century HorrorChapter 1. Horror Theory Now: Thinking About HorrorKevin CorstophineChapter 2. Decadent Feasts: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Twenty-First-Century Prestige Horror TelevisionJeffrey Andrew WeinstockChapter 3. Horror Cinema and Censorship in the Twenty-first CenturyNeil JacksonCHAPTER 4. The Recurrence and Evolution of Universal’s Classic Monsters in Twenty-first Century HorrorM. Keith BookerChapter 5. The Remixing (and Ransacking) of Hill House: Surveying the Spectral Presence of Shirley Jackson in Contemporary Gothic FictionJoan PasseyPart II: Media and ConsumptionChapter 6. Further Notes Towards a Monster PedagogyJohn Edgar BrowningChapter 7. Sounding Horror: Ballads, Ring Shouts, and the Power of Music in Black HorrorErik SteinskogChapter 8. The Evolution of Horror on StageKevin J. Wetmore Jr.Chapter 9. Hauntify the World: New Directions in Video Game HorrorGwyneth PeatyChapter 10. The Evolution of Horror and New MediaCarlos Littles Frontispiece to Part IIIMother [Figure 5]Gemma FilesPart III: Recognition and EvolutionChapter 11. The Future of Horror: Evolution or Revolution?Carina BissettChapter 12. Black Lives Matter HorrorMaisha WesterChapter 13. Indigenous Horror in the Twenty-First CenturyJacob FloydChapter 14. “Stepping out of the Closet”: The Evolution of Queer Representation and Tropes in Twenty-first Century Horror TVNatasha C. MarchiniChapter 15. Involution, Adaptation, Mutation: Horror’s Disability DynamicsAngela M. SmithChapter 16. Sympathy for the Candyman: The Politics of the Past in Supernatural HorrorBrandon GrafiusPart IV: Evolving ThemesChapter 17. The Future Promise for Folk HorrorMikel J. KovenChapter 18. The Rise in Ecohorror and Ecogothic CriticismTeresa FitzpatrickChapter 19. Undying Earth: Extinction Romances in the Age of AnthropoceneIan FettersChapter 20. Fear of Infection: Negotiating between Community and Isolation in Gothic Contagion NarrativesLaura R. KremmelChapter 21. The Metal and the Flesh: Techno-liminalities, Bio-subversion, and the Enhanced Super-Body as a Horror SpaceLorna Piatti-Farnell

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