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by Adam Lowenstein


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  • Title Horror Film and Otherness
  • Author Adam Lowenstein
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press
  • Date 2022-07-19
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780231205771 / 0231205775
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.13 x 6.06 x 0.87 in (23.19 x 15.39 x 2.21 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Horror films - History and criticism, Other (Philosophy) in motion pictures
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021054769
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

About the author

Adam Lowenstein is a professor of English and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film (2005) and Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media (2015), both published by Columbia University Press. Lowenstein serves on the board of directors for the George A. Romero Foundation.
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New. What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and deranged killers are metaphors for society's fear of the "others" that threaten the "normal." The monstrous other might represent women, Jews, or Blacks, as well as Indigenous, queer, poor, elderly, or disabled people. The horror film's depiction of such minorities can be sympathetic to their exclusion or complicit in their oppression, but ultimately, these images are understood to stand in for the others that the majority dreads and marginalizes. Adam Lowenstein offers a new account of horror and why it matters for understanding social otherness. He argues that horror films reveal how the category of the other is not fixed. Instead, the genre captures ongoing metamorphoses across "normal" self and "monstrous" other. This… Read More
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