Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts: Twenty-First-Century Screen Horror and the Historical Imagination

Author:   Dr. Amanda Howell (Griffith University, Australia) ,  Dr. Stephanie Green (Griffith University, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Pages:   280
Publication Date:   16 May 2024
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Author:   Dr. Amanda Howell (Griffith University, Australia) ,  Dr. Stephanie Green (Griffith University, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
ISBN:  

9781501394409


ISBN 10:   1501394401
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   16 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements List of Editors and Contributors 1. Introduction: History, Historiography and Horror in the Twenty-first Century Amanda Howell (Griffith University, Australia) and Stephanie Green (Griffith University, Australia) Part 1: Spectral Encounters and Haunted Histories 2. Ghosts, Vampires and Sacrilege in Warwick Thornton’s The Darkside, Firebite and The New Boy Felicity Collins (La Trobe University, University) 3. Undead Heritage: Environmental Trauma and Curses that Never Die in Takashi Shimizu’s ‘Village’ Trilogy Simon Bacon (Independent Scholar, Poland) 4. Deferred Demons: Diasporizing the Haunted Home in Babak Anvari’s Under the Shadow David Ellison (Griffith University, Australia) and Zach Karpinellison (Australian National University) Part 2: Found Footage Horrors 5. 'It’s Too Late for All of Us': Ritual, Repression and the Historical Imagination in Noroi: The Curse Jeremy Kingston (Griffith University, Australia) 6. Congruent Apprehensions of History in Irish Horror Cinema Stephen Joyce (Aarhus University, Denmark) Part 3: History and Horror in Televisual Storyworlds 7. Lace Collars and Cowboy Cravats: Gothic Time-travelling with Penny Dreadful and The Nevers Stephanie Green (Griffith University, Australia) 8. Pretty Ballads, Bastard Truths: History, Memory and the Past in The Witcher Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bienkowska (Jagiellonian University, Poland) 9. ‘Brings Back Some Memories’: Spectres of History in Twin Peaks: The Return Martin Fradley (University of Aberdeen and University of Manchester, UK) and John A. Riley (Solbridge International School of Business, South Korea) Part 4: Female Monsters and Revolting Women 10. ‘We’re Americans’: Remembering the ‘Other America’ in Jordan Peele’s Us Amanda Howell (Griffith University, Australia) 11. ‘Cut Them Up’: Lily Frankenstein, Valerie Solanas and the Reanimation of Radical Feminism in Penny Dreadful Anthea Taylor (University of Sydney, Australia) Part 5: Engaging the Past through Body Horror 12. ‘Laden with Human Flesh’: Dying Breed and Australia’s Engagement with its Convict Past Clare Burnett (Griffith University, Australia) 13. Killing Private Zombie: Overlord and the Twenty-first Century Military Horror Film Brian E. Crim (University of Lynchburg, USA) 14. Post-socialist Body Horror(s): On Exhaustion and Social Death in The Life and Death of a Porno Gang and A Serbian Film Andrija Filipovic (Singidunum University, Serbia) Index

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This timely collection considers the uneasy but productive relationship between genres of horror and history. The essays throughout consider multiple ways that horror might shape historical awareness and popular understanding of the past. Horror narratives are means for a society to engage with deep trauma, or to express ongoing pain and suffering as related to historical events. From Zombies to witches, across TV and film, and from the USA to Japan to Serbia, these thoughtful interventions allow us to understand the multiple and complex ways that horror tropes create, challenge, and interrogate historical narratives and authority. * Jerome de Groot, Professor of Literature and Culture, University of Manchester, UK *


This timely collection considers the uneasy but productive relationship between genres of horror and history. The essays throughout consider multiple ways that horror might shape historical awareness and popular understanding of the past. Horror narratives are means for a society to engage with deep trauma, or to express ongoing pain and suffering as related to historical events. From Zombies to witches, across TV and film, and from the USA to Japan to Serbia, these thoughtful interventions allow us to understand the multiple and complex ways that horror tropes create, challenge, and interrogate historical narratives and authority. * Jerome de Groot, Professor of Literature and Culture, University of Manchester, UK * From the historical traumas that scar us to the entities that scare us, Amanda Howell and Stephanie Green’s Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts explores the intersections between our pasts and our present, evidencing William Faulkner’s observation that history is “never dead. Its not even past.” * Jay McRoy, Professor, University of Wisconsin–Parkside, USA * While horror relies on fight or flight responses to actual or imagined threats, as Howell and Green remind us, this kind of viewing is less about being ‘in the moment’, and more about being drawn and quartered by history. Each chapter reminds us how the genre, like nightmares, amplifies the atemporality of suffering. Whether spun through the metaphor of Penny Dreadful’s monsters, the taking of an Aboriginal child’s wonder and magic, the sexual aberrations of the ostracized, or homicidal inbred clans marked by deprivation, Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts eloquently dissects the undead nature of collective trauma. * Terrie Waddell, Adjunct Associate Professor, La Trobe University, Australia *


Author Information

Amanda Howell is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at Griffith University, Australia. Her most recent publications appear in Continuum and The New Review of Film and Television Studies and in the edited collections Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand (2022) and Australian Genre Film (2021). She is the co-author of Monstrous Possibilities: The Female Monster in 21st Century Screen Horror (2022) and author of A Different Tune: Popular Music and Masculinity in Action (2015). Stephanie Green is Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Griffith University, Australia. She co-edited Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture (2017) with Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bienkowska and David Baker and co-produced several special issues. Her most research publications include, ‘Violence and the Gothic New Woman in Penny Dreadful, FULGOR 6.3 (2021) and ‘Playing at Being a Superhero’, Imagining the Impossible 1.1 (2022).

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