Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia
Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia
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Despite the constant changes in contemporary popular media, the horror genre retains its attraction for audiences of all backgrounds. This edited collection explores modern representations of gender in horror and how this factors into the genre's appeal.
This book brings together 15 essays on gender and horror in comics, games, and transmedia. Film, English, and other researchers from Europe, North America, Brazil, and South Africa explore horror in comics and graphic novels, particularly female stereotypes in Carrie and the "Dark Phoenix Saga" franchise and anxieties about gendered bodies and nuclear war or environmental damage in Black Hole and Uzumaki; horror in video games, including female protagonists in Tomb Raider and The Last of Us, Alien Isolation and moving beyond binaries of gender identification in gaming, masculinity in the Silent Hill franchise, and male stereotypes in survival horror games; transmedia examples of gender and horror, including gender in adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft, representations of the author Mary Shelley, Audition in the context of femininity and Japanese culture, and masculinity, hierarchy, and American exceptionalism in the narrative worlds of the World War Z franchise; audiences, fandom, and reception in terms of the Alien film franchise, female participation and gender identities at the San Sebastian Horror and Film Festival, and female fan-made slash fiction and art created in response to the Hannibal franchise; and audio examples, particularly queer masculinities in the Welcome to Night Vale podcasts and disembodied voices and sonic immersion in contemporary horror audio.
Robert Shail is Professor of Film and Director of Research in the School of Film, Music and Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is widely published on postwar British cinema, masculinity, and stardom. Samantha Holland is Senior Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Her research interests are broadly gender, leisure, subcultures and popular culture, utilising feminist, ethnographic qualitative methods, and including fashion history, vintage and second-hand, home and daily routines, and embodiment and body practices. Steven Gerrard is Reader in Film at the School of Film, Music and Performing Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK. A firm fan of all things low culture, Steven has written two monographs entitled The Carry On Films and The Modern British Horror Film.
This book brings together 15 essays on gender and horror in comics, games, and transmedia. Film, English, and other researchers from Europe, North America, Brazil, and South Africa explore horror in comics and graphic novels, particularly female stereotypes in Carrie and the "Dark Phoenix Saga" franchise and anxieties about gendered bodies and nuclear war or environmental damage in Black Hole and Uzumaki; horror in video games, including female protagonists in Tomb Raider and The Last of Us, Alien Isolation and moving beyond binaries of gender identification in gaming, masculinity in the Silent Hill franchise, and male stereotypes in survival horror games; transmedia examples of gender and horror, including gender in adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft, representations of the author Mary Shelley, Audition in the context of femininity and Japanese culture, and masculinity, hierarchy, and American exceptionalism in the narrative worlds of the World War Z franchise; audiences, fandom, and reception in terms of the Alien film franchise, female participation and gender identities at the San Sebastian Horror and Film Festival, and female fan-made slash fiction and art created in response to the Hannibal franchise; and audio examples, particularly queer masculinities in the Welcome to Night Vale podcasts and disembodied voices and sonic immersion in contemporary horror audio.
Robert Shail is Professor of Film and Director of Research in the School of Film, Music and Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is widely published on postwar British cinema, masculinity, and stardom. Samantha Holland is Senior Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Her research interests are broadly gender, leisure, subcultures and popular culture, utilising feminist, ethnographic qualitative methods, and including fashion history, vintage and second-hand, home and daily routines, and embodiment and body practices. Steven Gerrard is Reader in Film at the School of Film, Music and Performing Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK. A firm fan of all things low culture, Steven has written two monographs entitled The Carry On Films and The Modern British Horror Film.