Dark thoughts : philosophic reflections on cinematic horror

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edited by Steven Jay Schneider, Daniel Shaw

Scarecrow Press, 2003

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index

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The general theory of horrific appeal / Nol Carroll
The mastery of Hannibal Lecter / Daniel Shaw
The lived nightmare: trauma, anxiety, and the ethical aesthetics of horror / Elizabeth Cowie
Aristotelian reflections on horror and tragedy in an American werewolf in London and the sixth sense / Angela Curran
Heidegger, the uncanny, and Jacques Tourneur's horror films / Curtis Bowman
Hitchcock made only one horror film : matters of time, space, causality, and the Schopenhauerian will / Ken Mogg
What you can't see can hurt you : of invisible and hollow men / J.P. Telotte
On the question of the horror film / Michael Grant
An event-based definition of art-horror / Matt Hills
Haunting the house from within : disbelief, mitigation, and spatial experience / Aaron Smuts
Murder as art/the art of murder : aestheticizing violence in modern cinematic horror / Steven Jay Schneider
the slasher's blood lust / Cynthia A. Freeland
American psycho: horror, satire, aesthetics, and identification / Deborah Knight and George McKnight
Real horror / Robert C. Solomon (with reply from Daniel Shaw)