Index
Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia
ISBN: 978-1-78769-108-7, eISBN: 978-1-78769-107-0
Publication date: 19 September 2019
Citation
(2019), "Index", Shail, R., Gerrard, S. and Holland, S. (Ed.) Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia (Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 203-213. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-107-020191019
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © Editorial matter and selection the volume editors; individual chapters their respective authors, 2019
INDEX
- Prelims
- Introduction
- Part I Comics and Graphic Novels
- Chapter 1 Blood and Fire: Monstrous Women in Carrie and ‘The Dark Phoenix Saga’
- Chapter 2 Anxiety and Mutation in Charles Burns’ Black Hole and Junji Ito’s Uzumaki
- Part II Video Games
- Chapter 3 ‘Endure and Survive’: Evolving Female Protagonists in Tomb Rider and The Last of Us
- Chapter 4 Horrific Things: Alien Isolation and the Queer Materiality of Gender, Desire and Being
- Chapter 5 Shattered Identities: The Weakness of the Male Hero in the Silent Hill Game Franchise
- Chapter 6 Dad Rising? Playing the Father in Post-Apocalyptic Survival Horror Games
- Part III Transmedia and Adaptation
- Chapter 7 ‘It was an indescribable terror. So terrifying, I cannot begin to describe it. But it had tentacles.’ H.P. Lovecraft and Gender in (Cult) Media
- Chapter 8 A Jigsaw of all our Worst Fears: Representations of Mary Shelly as Gothic Heroine in Popular Media
- Chapter 9 Illusion, Reality and Fearsome Femininity in Takashi Miike’s Audition
- Chapter 10 Masculinity, Human Hierarchy and American Exceptionalism in World War Z
- Part IV Audiences, Fandom and Reception
- Chapter 11 Fans of the Alien Film Franchise: Creating a Fan-specific Checklist
- Chapter 12 ‘You’re Sick if that Turns you on!’: Female Participation and Gender Identities at San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival
- Chapter 13 Will Slash Hannibal – Negotiating the Borders of Female Fandom in Hannibal: This is Their Design
- Part V Audio and Podcasts
- Chapter 14 ‘Mostly Void, Partially Stars’: Queer Representation in the Welcome to Night Vale Podcast
- Chapter 15 Sightless Realms of Terror: Disembodied Voices and Sonic Immersion in Contemporary Horror Audio
- Conclusion
- Index