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Contents

Introduction: traumatic events andinternational horror cinema

PART I German and Japanese horror:the traumatic legacy of the SecondWorld War

Introduction

1 The horror of the Nazi past in the reunification present: Jörg Buttgereit’s Nekromantiks

2 Nihonjinron, women, horror: post-war national identity and the spirit of subaltern vengeance in Ringu and The Ring

PART II The traumatised 1970s and the threa tof apocalypse now

Introduction

3 ‘Consumed out of the good land’: George A. Romero’s horror of the 1970s

4 All hail to the serial killer: America’s last frontier hero in the age of Reaganite eschatology and beyond

PART III From Vietnam to 9/11: the Orientalist other and the Americanpoor white

Introduction

5 ‘Squealing like a pig’: the War onTerror and the resurgence of hillbilly horror after 9/11

PART IV New Labour new horrors: the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity

Introduction

6 Zombies, dog men and dragons: generic hybridity and gender crisis in British horror of the new millennium

Conclusion: horror cinema and traumatic events

Filmography

Bibliography

Index