The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity


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Explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals and as members of a particular nation-state.

Author: Linnie Blake
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 06/30/2012
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53d
ISBN13: 9780719075940
ISBN10: 0719075947
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
- Social Science | Media Studies
- Literary Criticism | General

About the Author

Linnie Blake is Senior Lecturer in Film, Manchester Metropolitan University