This volume is the first edited collection of essays focusing on European horror cinema from 1945 to the present. It features new contributions by distinguished international scholars exploring British, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Northern European and Eastern European horror cinema. The essays employ a variety of current critical methods of analysis, ranging from psychoanalysis and Deleuzean film theory to reception theory and historical analysis. The complete volume offers a major resource on post-war European horror cinema, with in-depth studies of such classic films as Seytan (Turkey, 1974), Suspiria (Italy, 1977), Switchblade Romance (France, 2003), and Taxidermia (Hungary, 2006).
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Reception and Perception of European Horror Cinemas
- Section Introduction
- Resident Evil? The Limits of European Horror: Resident Evil Versus Suspiria
- Beyond Suspiria: The Place of European Horror Cinema in the Fan Canon
- Refusing to Look at Rape: The Reception of Belgian Horror Cinema
- Depressing, Degrading! The Reception of the European Horror Film in Britain 1957–68
- British Horror Cinema
- Section Introduction
- The Boundaries of Horror in Wolf Rilla’s Village of the Damned
- New Labour, New Horrors: Genetic Mutation, Generic Hybridity and Gender Crisis in British Horror of the New Millennium
- French Horror Cinema
- Section Introduction
- Baise-moi and the French Rape-Revenge Film
- Subjectivity Unleashed: Haute Tension
- Spanish Horror Cinema
- Section Introduction
- Paul Naschy, Exorcismo and the Reactionary Horrors of Spanish Popular Cinema in the Early 1970s
- History, Terrain and Tread: The Walk of Demons, Zombie Flesh Eaters and the Blind Dead
- Alejandro Amenábar and Contemporary Spanish Horror
- Italian Horror Cinema
- Section Introduction
- Live Ate: Global Catastrophe and the Politics and Poetics of the Italian Zombie Film
- A Touch of Terror: Dario Argento and Deleuze’s Cinematic Sensorium
- German and Northern Euroopean Horror Cinema
- Section introduction
- ‘A Former Director of German Horror Films’: Horror, European Cinema and the Critical Reception of Robert Siodmak’s Hollywood Career
- World of Blood and Fire: Lang, Mabuse, and Bergman’s The Serpent’s Egg
- ‘Le Cineaste d’Horreur Ordinaire’: Michael Haneke and the Horrors of Everyday Existence
- Eastern European Horror Cinema
- Section introduction
- A Gaze From Hell: Eastern European Horror Cinema Revisited
- Taxidermia – A Hungarian Taste for Horror
- Horror Films in Turkish Cinema: To Use or Not to Use Local Cultural Motifs, That is Not the Question
- Filmography
- Index
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