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Contents Acknowledgments 000 Introduction 000 Steven Jay Schneider and Tony Williams I. The Dynamics of Cross-Cultural Horror Exchange 1. Blood and Black Gloves on Shiny Discs: New Media, Old Tastes, and the Remediation of Italian Horror Films in the United States 000 Raiford Guins 2. Importation/Mexploitation; or, How a Crime-Fighting, Vampire-Slaying Mexican Wrestler Almost Found Himself in an Italian Sword-and-Sandals Epic 000 Andrew Syder and Dolores Tierney 3. The Dialogue with American Popular Culture in Two German Films about the Serial Killer 000 Steffen Hantke II. Haunting Histories and Regional Gothics 4. The Return of History as Horror: Onibaba and the Atomic Bomb 000 Jyotsna Kapur 5. "Terror Australis": Areas of Horror in the Australian Cinema 000 Jonathan Rayner 6. Kiwi Gothic: New Zealand's Cinema of a Perilous Paradise 000 Ian Conrich 7. Irish Horror: Neil Jordan and the Anglo-Irish Gothic 000 Brian McIlroy 8. Thailand Haunted: The Power of the Past in the Contemporary Thai Horror Film 000 Adam Knee III. Horror in the Social Realm 9. The Spanish Horror Film as Subversive Text: Eloy de la Iglesia's La semana del asesino 000 Andrew Willis 10. Genre Bending and Gender Bonding: Masculinity and Repression in Dutch "Thriller" Cinema 000 Steven Jay Schneider and Kevin W. Sweeney 11. Hong Kong Social Horror: Tragedy and Farce in Category 3 000 Tony Williams 12. Beyond Dracula and Ceausescu: Phenomenology of Horror in Romanian Cinema 000 Christina Stojanova 13. Snapping Up Schoolgirls: Legitimation Crisis in Recent Canadian Horror 000 Suzie Young IV. Contested Horror Traditions 14. Beyond the Genre Formula: Implicit Horror in the Films of Jan vankmajer 000 Jan Uhde 15. Egypt: A Cinema without Horror? 000 Viola Shafik 16. Burn, Witch, Burn: A First Look at the Scandinavian Horror Film 000 Rebecca A. Umland and Samuel J. Umland 17. Man Bites Dog and the Critical Reception of Belgian Horror (in) Cinema 000 Ernest Mathijs 18. Exorcising the Devil: Russian Cinema and Horror 000 Josephine Woll Contributors 000 Index 000
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Horror films -- History and criticism.