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‘Being a horror fan and being a feminist are often a conflicting business’: Feminist horror, the opinion economy and Teeth’s gendered audiences “恐怖片迷和女权主义者往往是相互矛盾的”:女权主义恐怖片、舆论经济和《牙齿》的性别观众
IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00016_1
Katherine Farrimond
Horror has long been understood as a ‘bad object’ in relation to its audiences. More specifically, this presumed relationship is a gendered one, so that men are positioned as the genre’s natural audience, while women’s engagement with horror is presented as more fractious. However, those horror films framed as feminist require a reorientation of these relations. This article foregrounds the critical reception of a ‘conspicuously feminist’ horror film in order to explore what happens to the bad object of horror within an opinion economy that works to diagnose the feminism or its absence in popular culture. Reviews of Teeth (2007), a ‘feminist horror film’ about vagina dentata, illustrate the push and pull of gendered power attached to feminist media, where empowerment is often understood in binary terms in relation to its gendered audiences. The assumed disempowerment of male audiences takes precedence in many reviews, while other narratives emerge in which Teeth becomes an educational tool that might change gendered behaviours, which directly empowers female audiences or which dupes women into believing they have been empowered. Finally, Teeth’s reviews expose a language of desire and fantasy around vagina dentata as an automated solution to the embodied experiences of women in contemporary culture. Teeth’s reviews, I argue, offer a valuable case study for interrogating the tensions in discourse when the bad object of horror is put to work for feminism.
长期以来,恐怖片一直被视为与观众有关的“坏东西”。更具体地说,这种假定的关系是一种性别关系,因此男性被定位为这种类型的自然受众,而女性对恐怖的参与则显得更加难以捉摸。然而,那些被框定为女权主义的恐怖电影需要重新定位这些关系。这篇文章展望了一部“明显的女权主义”恐怖电影的批评性接受,以探索在一个致力于诊断女权主义或其在流行文化中的缺席的舆论经济中,恐怖的坏对象发生了什么。《牙齿》(2007)是一部关于阴道牙齿的“女权主义恐怖电影”,它的评论说明了女权主义媒体所附带的性别权力的推拉关系,在女权主义媒体中,赋权通常被理解为与性别受众相关的二元术语。在许多评论中,男性观众被剥夺权力的假设占据了优先地位,而在其他叙述中,《牙齿》成为一种教育工具,可能会改变性别行为,直接赋予女性观众权力,或者欺骗女性,让她们相信自己被赋予了权力。最后,《牙齿》的评论揭示了一种围绕阴道齿状结构的欲望和幻想语言,它是当代文化中女性具体化经验的自动解决方案。我认为,当恐怖的坏对象为女权主义服务时,牙斯的评论为探讨话语中的紧张关系提供了一个有价值的案例研究。
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引用次数: 4
What is IT? Ambient dread and modern paranoia in It (2017), It Follows (2014) and It Comes at Night (2017) IT是什么?《It》(2017)、《It Follows》(2014)和《It Comes at Night》(2017)中的环境恐惧和现代偏执
IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00019_1
J. Weinstock
This article finds its impetus in the curious convergence of three twenty-first-century horror films around the ambiguous ‘It’ foregrounded by their titles: Andrés Muschietti’s 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 novel It, David Robert Mitchell’s 2014 It Follows and Trey Edward Shults’s 2017 It Comes at Night. In each of these films, the titular ‘it’ is difficult or impossible to pin down; it can assume the form of anyone (or, in the case of Shults’s film, infect anyone) and appear anywhere; it cannot be reasoned with, explained or swayed from its course; and conventional sources of protection – the law, and particularly the family – all come up short when confronting it. In this way, the ambiguous ‘its’ of these three films can be seen as crystallizations of a twenty-first-century zeitgeist in which monstrosity seems particularly difficult to locate and defuse. In the age of terrorism, mass shootings and ‘stranger danger’, climate change, and global pandemics, these films suggest that contemporary anxieties cluster around the ambiguous nature of modern threats.
这篇文章的动力来自于三部21世纪恐怖电影围绕其标题所预示的模糊的“它”的奇怪融合:安德烈斯·马斯基耶蒂2017年改编自斯蒂芬·金1986年的小说《它》,大卫·罗伯特·米切尔2014年的《它随之而来》和特雷·爱德华·舒尔茨2017年的《夜晚来临》。在每一部电影中,都很难或不可能确定名义上的“它”;它可以采取任何人的形式(或者,在舒尔茨的电影中,感染任何人),出现在任何地方;它不能被推理、解释或偏离其路线;以及传统的保护来源——法律,尤其是家庭——在面对它时都显得不足。这样,这三部电影中模棱两可的“它”可以被视为21世纪时代精神的结晶,在这种精神中,怪物似乎特别难以定位和化解。在恐怖主义、大规模枪击和“陌生危险”、气候变化和全球流行病的时代,这些电影表明,当代的焦虑集中在现代威胁的模糊性上。
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引用次数: 2
Sleeping with the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror, Darryl Jones (2018) 《开着灯睡觉:恐怖的不安故事》,达里尔·琼斯(2018)
IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00023_5
Patrick Anderson
Review of: Sleeping with the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror, Darryl Jones (2018)New York: Oxford University Press, 181 pp.,ISBN 978-0-19882-648-4, h/bk, £10.99
评论:《开着灯睡觉:恐怖的不安故事》,Darryl Jones(2018),纽约:牛津大学出版社,181页,ISBN 978-0-19882-648-4,h/bk,10.99英镑
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引用次数: 0
Shirley Jackson’s Hill House and the rise of meta-gothic parody 雪莉·杰克逊的《山屋》和超哥特式滑稽模仿的兴起
IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00021_1
T. Snyder
This article argues that Shirley Jackson bent her classic gothic tale The Haunting of Hill House into a new genre, the meta-gothic parody. Utilizing a postmodern framing of parody that gestures towards the meta-textual, I reread the humour as presented in the novel as a survival strategy. In utilizing parodic jokes that make fun of classic gothic tropes, some characters are able to survive a haunted house by transcending the genre that they are stuck within. Other characters, unable to change the rules, end up losing the game and getting entrapped. Jackson’s book likewise breaks new ground in what is so often lamented as a tired genre.
这篇文章认为,雪莉·杰克逊将她的经典哥特式故事《山屋闹鬼》转变为一种新的类型,即元哥特式戏仿。利用后现代的戏仿框架,我重读了小说中的幽默,作为一种生存策略。通过使用戏仿笑话来取笑经典的哥特式比喻,一些角色能够通过超越他们所处的流派,在鬼屋中生存下来。其他角色无法改变规则,最终输掉了游戏并陷入陷阱。杰克逊的书同样开创了一个经常被哀叹为乏味的流派的新局面。
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引用次数: 1
Some ‘R’ points: Repression, repulsion, revelation and redemption in South Korean horror films 一些“R”点:韩国恐怖电影中的压抑、排斥、揭露和救赎
IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00020_1
David Scott Diffrient
This article examines some of the formal properties, stylistic motifs and thematic preoccupations of classic and contemporary South Korean horror films. As a genre that has enormous box-office appeal and crossover potential for western audiences, horror might seem to be little more than a commercial platform for young filmmakers to exploit popular tastes and cash in on derivative stories offering scant insight into the social conditions faced by modern-day Koreans. However, even the most cliché-ridden, shock-filled slasher films and ghost tales reveal the often-contradictory cultural attitudes of a populace that, over the past three generations, has weathered literally divisive transformations at the national and ideological levels. As such, the genre deserves scrutiny as a repository of previously pent-up, suddenly unleashed libidinal energies, consumerist desires and historical traumas, as well as a barometer of public opinion about such issues as class warfare, gender inequality and sexual identity. Specifically, I explore some of the most salient features of Korean horror cinema, including filmmakers’ tendency to adopt narrative analepsis – typically rendered as flashbacks – in the course of plotting out scenarios that, though far-fetched, are rooted in unsettled (and unsettling) real-world problems. Historical return, I argue, truly is a horrifying prospect, especially for anyone old enough to remember, or to have experienced firsthand, the brutality of a military dictatorship or an ongoing abuse of presidential power resulting in severe rights violations (e.g. the Park Chung-hee [1961–79]) and Chun Doo-hwan [1980–88] administrations). But historical return simply must be dramatized as part of the regurgitative ‘purging’ for which the genre has been singled out by theorists who recognize horror’s socially productive function.
本文考察了韩国经典和当代恐怖电影的一些形式特征、风格主题和主题关注点。作为一种对西方观众具有巨大票房吸引力和跨界潜力的类型,恐怖片似乎只不过是年轻电影人利用大众口味的商业平台,并通过对现代韩国社会状况缺乏洞察力的衍生故事赚钱。然而,即使是最老套的、令人震惊的杀戮电影和鬼故事也揭示了印度民众经常矛盾的文化态度,在过去的三代人里,他们经历了国家和意识形态层面上的分裂转变。因此,这种类型值得仔细审视,因为它是先前被压抑的、突然释放出来的力比多能量、消费主义欲望和历史创伤的储存库,也是公众对阶级斗争、性别不平等和性身份等问题的民意晴雨表。具体来说,我探讨了韩国恐怖电影的一些最显著的特点,包括电影制作人在策划情节的过程中倾向于采用叙事分析——通常以倒叙的形式呈现——这些情节虽然牵强,但根植于未解决的(和令人不安的)现实问题。我认为,历史的回归确实是一个可怕的前景,特别是对于那些年龄足够大的人来说,特别是对于那些记得或亲身经历过军事独裁统治或持续滥用总统权力导致严重侵犯人权的人(例如朴正熙(1961-79)和全斗焕(1980-88)政府)。但是历史的回归必须被戏剧化,作为反刍的“净化”的一部分,理论家们认识到恐怖的社会生产功能,他们把这种类型挑出来。
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Arctic terror: Chilling decay and horrifying whiteness in the Canadian North 北极恐怖:加拿大北部令人不寒而栗的腐烂和可怕的白色
IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00018_1
Anita Lam
Loosely based on the events of Sir John Franklin’s fatal 1845 British naval expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, The Terror (2018) is a historical horror series written and produced for the American pay channel, AMC. In light of the lost expedition’s mythic hold on the Canadian imagination of the North, this article examines how this American series repackages and reproduces myths about the Arctic as a destructive, alien icescape for contemporary audiences in two interrelated ways. First, the coldness of the Canadian Arctic becomes a distinct landscape for survival horror, uniquely shaping the emotional register of terror. In contrast to the jump scares and fast pacing of typical Hollywood representations of horror, the action of horror slows to a glacial pace in the vast whiteness of the snowscape, made more chilling by the gradual decay and death of those who came to claim it. Secondly, ‘the white beast’ of The Terror is represented as a cannibalistic Windigo that takes on different forms as perspectives shift between Franklin’s stranded crew members and the Inuit. Through the Inuit perspective, viewers see imperial hubris transform the North into an inescapable haunted house, raising the horrifying spectre of whiteness.
《恐怖》(2018)是一部历史恐怖剧集,改编自1845年约翰·富兰克林爵士在英国海军探险中发现西北航道的致命事件,为美国付费频道AMC编剧和制作。鉴于失落的探险队在加拿大人对北方的想象中所具有的神话色彩,本文将以两种相互关联的方式审视这部美国电视剧是如何重新包装和再现关于北极的神话的,北极是一个破坏性的、外来的冰逃。首先,加拿大北极的寒冷成为生存恐怖的独特景观,独特地塑造了恐怖的情感记录。与典型的好莱坞恐怖表现的跳跃恐惧和快节奏相比,恐怖的动作在广阔的白色雪景中放慢到冰川般的速度,随着前来占领的人的逐渐腐烂和死亡而更加令人不寒而栗。其次,《恐怖》中的“白色野兽”被描绘成食人的温迪戈,随着富兰克林的搁浅船员和因纽特人的视角转换,它呈现出不同的形式。通过因纽特人的视角,观众看到帝国的傲慢把北方变成了一个无法逃脱的鬼屋,升起了可怕的白色幽灵。
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‘A contemptible movie now showing in Times Square’: Cultural distinctions, space and taste in the exhibition of Snuff at the National Theatre “一部现在在时代广场上映的卑鄙电影”:国家剧院Snuff展览中的文化差异、空间和品味
IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00017_1
A. Herron
This article considers the urban landscape of New York City’s theatre district in the 1970s and how its identity as a contested space provides insight into key cultural shifts, including changes to the regulation of media, variance and convergence between industrial practices in the film industry, and discursive struggles between culture and capital. With many of the city’s luxurious picture palaces converted into movie theatres with cheaper ticket prices and more genre fare in the wake of the Great Depression, critics sought to contain ‘low’ media such as horror and pornography to prevent their spread from grind houses to prestigious milieus. Using the case study of Snuff (The Findlays, 1976) and its run at the National Theatre on 44th Street and Broadway, I argue that dailies and trade publications were more concerned with the choice of exhibition venue than the content of the low-budget exploitation feature from Monarch Releasing Corporation. Consequently, objections to the film were informed by broader contexts of gentrification, tastemaking and cultural distinctions, with hyperbolic images of the imagined audiences for Snuff generated by tastemakers when they were unable to convincingly critique the National itself.
本文探讨了20世纪70年代纽约市剧院区的城市景观,以及它作为一个有争议的空间的身份如何洞察关键的文化转变,包括媒体监管的变化、电影业工业实践之间的差异和趋同,以及文化和资本之间的话语斗争。大萧条后,这座城市的许多豪华电影宫都被改造成了电影院,票价更便宜,票价更具风格,评论家们试图遏制恐怖和色情等“低级”媒体,以防止它们从破旧的房子传播到著名的环境中。通过对《Snuff》(the Findlays,1976)及其在44街和百老汇国家剧院上演的案例研究,我认为日报和商业出版物更关心展览场地的选择,而不是君主发行公司低预算开发特色的内容。因此,对这部电影的反对是由更广泛的士绅化、品味塑造和文化差异背景所决定的,当品味塑造者无法令人信服地批评《国家》本身时,他们会为《鼻烟》产生夸张的观众形象。
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Theatricality in the Horror Film: A Brief Study on the Dark Pleasures of Screen Artifice, André Loiselle (2020) 恐怖电影中的戏剧性:简论银幕艺术的黑暗快感,AndréLoiselle(2020)
IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00024_5
Meg D. Lonergan
Review of: Theatricality in the Horror Film: A Brief Study on the Dark Pleasures of Screen Artifice, André Loiselle (2020)New York: Anthem Press, 121 pp.,ISBN 978-1-78527-128-1, h/bk, 95.64 CAD
《恐怖电影中的戏剧性:对银幕技巧的黑暗乐趣的简要研究》,安德鲁·洛伊塞尔(2020)纽约:圣歌出版社,121页,ISBN 978-1-78527-128-1, h/bk, 95.64 CAD
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Introduction 介绍
IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00015_2
M. Jancovich
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‘Something to be haunted by’: Adaptive monsters and regional mythologies in ‘The Forbidden’ and Candyman “令人困扰的东西”:《禁忌》和《糖果人》中的适应性怪物和地区神话
IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Pub Date : 2020-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00013_1
Adam R. Ochonicky
Since Bernard Rose’s Candyman (1992) was first released more than 25 years ago, there has been a great deal of scholarly commentary on the film’s treatment of class, race, gender and urban legends. To a lesser degree, Clive Barker’s short story, ‘The Forbidden’ (1986), has received some critical attention largely because of its status as the source material for the film’s general premise and now-iconic central monster. This article expands on such existent scholarship by analysing regional mythologies and the cross-cultural adaptation of place-specific monsters within and across both texts. To develop these primary arguments, this article extracts a theory of adaptation and location from Neil Gaiman’s novel, American Gods ([2001] 2011), and applies that theory to the acts of adaptation pervading ‘The Forbidden’ and Candyman. In complementary ways, all three of these texts explicitly reflect on the complexities of adapting monsters to precise locales. Notably, both American Gods and Candyman take place in the American Midwest; this regional setting greatly impacts the conceptualization of each narrative’s supernatural beings (Gaiman’s cohort of gods and the Candyman, respectively). Within popular culture, the Midwest is regularly depicted as both a site of nostalgic memory and a cultural space defined by the willful forgetting or elision of history. This article asserts the importance of recognizing the Midwest as a recurrent staging ground for horror narratives, particularly those featuring monsters who embody forgotten, misremembered, suppressed or denied pieces of history. Further, by examining such regional dynamics in American Gods and Candyman, this article develops the concept of ‘adaptive monsters’, which describes horrific beings who assume symbolic attributes of the historical, cultural and/or spatial environments into which they are adapted. Overall, through analyses of ‘The Forbidden’, Candyman and American Gods, this article demonstrates how regional mythologies (especially those of the Midwest) shape the adaptation of monstrous beings in horror narratives and across textual forms.
自从伯纳德·罗斯的《糖果人》(1992)在25年前首次上映以来,就有大量关于这部电影对阶级、种族、性别和都市传说的处理的学术评论。克莱夫·巴克(Clive Barker)的短篇小说《被禁》(The Forbidden, 1986)受到了一些评论界的关注,这在很大程度上是因为它是这部电影的基本背景和现在标志性的中央怪物的素材。本文通过分析两个文本内部和文本之间的地域神话和特定地方怪物的跨文化改编,扩展了现有的学术研究。为了发展这些主要论点,本文从尼尔·盖曼的小说《美国众神》([2001]2011)中提取了一种适应和地点理论,并将该理论应用于《禁忌》和《糖果人》中普遍存在的适应行为。以互补的方式,这三个文本都明确地反映了使怪物适应精确环境的复杂性。值得注意的是,《美国众神》和《糖果人》都发生在美国中西部;这种地域背景极大地影响了每个叙事中超自然存在的概念化(分别是盖曼的众神和糖果人)。在流行文化中,中西部经常被描述为怀旧记忆的场所,也是故意忘记或省略历史的文化空间。这篇文章强调了认识到中西部是恐怖故事的反复上演地的重要性,尤其是那些以怪物为特征的恐怖故事,这些怪物代表着被遗忘、被误解、被压制或被否认的历史片段。此外,通过研究《美国众神》和《糖果人》中的这种区域动态,本文发展了“适应性怪物”的概念,它描述了具有他们所适应的历史、文化和/或空间环境的象征性属性的可怕生物。总的来说,通过对《禁忌》、《糖果人》和《美国众神》的分析,本文展示了地区神话(尤其是中西部的神话)如何在恐怖叙事和文本形式中塑造怪物的适应性。
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