Animality and Horror Cinema: Creaturely Fear on Film (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

By: Peter Sands and Samantha Hind and Mo O’ Neill

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Synopsis: Animality and Horror Cinema provides a wide-ranging overview of the role played by animals in the genre of horror cinema. Across four sections that unite affective and generic modes of horror with animals, animality, and the discourse of species, the volume demonstrates the multivalent operation of animality in transnational cinemas that look beyond the trope of monstrous adversity associated with the creature feature. With chapters focusing on the extrusion of animals from horror narratives, the multisensorial dimensions of animal horror, the intrusion of documentary violence, and the horrific contiguity of human and nonhuman flesh, it argues for the concept of creaturely fear as a lens through which to read horror&’s blurring of the species barrier. The collection appeals to those interested in the intersection of animal and film studies with memory studies, afropessimism and critical race theory, posthumanism, biopolitics, ecocriticism, queer theory and vegan theory.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031872945
Related ISBNs:: 9783031872938
Publisher:: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date of Addition:: 09/15/25
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Science, Animals, Art and Architecture, Technology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Peter Sands
Edited by:: Mo O’ Neill
Edited by:: Samantha Hind