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‘Ages five and up’: Alien toys for children and the question of horror’s histories “适合五岁及以上”:孩子们的外星人玩具和恐怖历史问题
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Horror Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00043_1
Filipa Antunes, Alexander Plowman
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The meaningful art of one of the ‘worst movies of all time’: Phil Tucker’s Robot Monster (1953) as an existentialist critique of American modernity “有史以来最糟糕的电影”之一的有意义的艺术：菲尔·塔克的《机器人怪物》（1953），作为对美国现代性的存在主义批判
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Horror Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00044_1
Daniel Tilsley
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‘Awed listening’: H. P. Lovecraft in classic and contemporary audio horror “敬畏的聆听”:h·p·洛夫克拉夫特在经典和当代音频恐怖中的表现
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Horror Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00048_1
Richard J. Hand
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Sounding the abject in contemporary horror scoring 在当代恐怖评分中听起来很卑鄙
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Horror Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00049_1
Janet K. Halfyard
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‘Dear God, I am not a son of a bitch’: Justifications for patriarchal violence and the mischaracterization of Stephen King’s Jack Torrance “亲爱的上帝，我不是狗娘养的”:为男权暴力辩护，以及对斯蒂芬·金笔下杰克·托伦斯的错误描述
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Horror Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00035_1
T. Stephens
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The (un)death of the author: Authorship as horror trope in Stephen King’s fiction 作者之死:作者身份是斯蒂芬·金小说中的恐怖隐喻
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Horror Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00036_1
C. d’Hont
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‘We lie best when we lie to ourselves’: Stephen King’s It and the horrors of nostalgia “当我们对自己撒谎时，我们撒谎得最好”:斯蒂芬·金的《It》和怀旧的恐怖
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Horror Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00041_1
Kristen Miller Hill
{"title":"‘We lie best when we lie to ourselves’: Stephen King’s It and the horrors of nostalgia","authors":"Kristen Miller Hill","doi":"10.1386/host_00041_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/host_00041_1","url":null,"abstract":"Stephen King’s 1986 novel It follows a traditional horror story arc of restoration of order through defeat of a monster, but the interlude sections of the novel complicate this narrative structure with an alternate story arc in which the people of Derry are also a source\u0000 of horror within the novel, who enable the monster with their desire to sanitize the past of the town. This arc, in which the townspeople are perpetrators and enablers of horrors, reflects a cultural tendency towards nostalgic views of the past that would have been noticeable in political\u0000 and cultural movements of the 1980s. As nostalgic currents have returned to prominence in political movements surrounding the election of Donald Trump and other populist movements, re-examining the interlude sections of It reveals commentary about the horrors of nostalgia that, like\u0000 the cyclical reawakening of the novel’s monster, are relevant once again.","PeriodicalId":41545,"journal":{"name":"Horror Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42984727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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‘It’ before It: Stephen King and the abhuman from Carrie to The Shining 它之前的“它”：斯蒂芬·金和阿布曼从嘉莉到《闪灵》
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Horror Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00039_1
C. Sederholm
{"title":"‘It’ before It: Stephen King and the abhuman from Carrie to The Shining","authors":"C. Sederholm","doi":"10.1386/host_00039_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/host_00039_1","url":null,"abstract":"Although Stephen King’s most famous use of the pronoun ‘It’ comes from his 1986 novel It, he nevertheless uses ‘It’ in highly distinctive ways well before then. These uses of ‘It’ before It need to be discussed because they signify\u0000 a complex transformation of human characters into monstrous creatures. Focusing on texts ranging from Carrie to The Shining, this article explores how King developed these distinctive ‘Its’ from a somewhat vague sense of unease or twisted desires into complex signifiers\u0000 of the ways human characteristics can transform into monstrous actions. But King’s focus is never solely on the spectacle or the general horror of this transformation from human to monster. Instead, he explores the unsettling problem of the ways even the most positive human desires and\u0000 actions can turn characters into ‘It’ creatures. Thus, the real tragedy of becoming an ‘It’, this article argues, comes from recognizing that these ‘It’ creatures are never just simple variations on a monstrous theme; instead, they represent the ways ordinary\u0000 people can become monstrous as they lose themselves to their own alluring, but ultimately empty, actions.","PeriodicalId":41545,"journal":{"name":"Horror Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48307475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Roll on two: Ambiguous energies in Stephen King’s The Shining, The Green Mile and Revival 第二轮:斯蒂芬·金的《闪灵》、《绿英里》和《复兴》中模棱两可的能量
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Horror Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00038_1
Helena Bacon
{"title":"Roll on two: Ambiguous energies in Stephen King’s The Shining, The Green Mile and Revival","authors":"Helena Bacon","doi":"10.1386/host_00038_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/host_00038_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article positions King as both heir to the literary romantics and arbiter of contemporary issues as located specifically within his representation of energy, and electricity in particular. Writing both within and beyond horror, King both characterizes and creates energic structures\u0000 that reflect both romantic aesthetic conceptualizations of electricity and modern concerns regarding its generation and fuel consumption more generally. By examining how The Shining (1977), The Green Mile (1996) and Revival (2014) present energy and also formally generate\u0000 it, I will explore a little attended to element of King’s work and identify how energy functions ambiguously within these texts, materializing both horror and hope, bringing about both the conclusion and continuation of human life. I will also explore how the particular spaces this power\u0000 is located within both channel and amplify it, King’s work here a surprising textual conduit for our fascination with, reliance on and fear of energy and the ongoing problems and potentialities alive within it.","PeriodicalId":41545,"journal":{"name":"Horror Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48130678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Dead is not better: The multiple resurrections of Stephen King’s Revival 死也不好：斯蒂芬·金复活的多重复活
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Horror Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/host_00037_1
J. Weinstock
{"title":"Dead is not better: The multiple resurrections of Stephen King’s Revival","authors":"J. Weinstock","doi":"10.1386/host_00037_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/host_00037_1","url":null,"abstract":"Stephen King’s 2014 novel, Revival, plays with its title in several respects. It is first a familiar Frankenstein-esque narrative about a mad scientist who seeks to revive the dead. It is also, however, about religious revivals, both in the specific sense of the\u0000 religious gatherings held by minister and main antagonist Charles Jacobs, and in the more general sense of attempting to find something in which to place one’s faith in a world where accidents can claim the lives of loved ones. Beyond this, Revival plays with its title in two\u0000 more senses. First, it elaborates on the recurring theme in King of existentialist angst precipitated by the death of a child or loved one, which King uses to question God’s benevolence or existence. In order to ask these questions, King also resurrects the spirit of Mary Shelley, taking\u0000 from Frankenstein the theme of reanimation of the dead. The narrative’s conclusion, however, offers yet another revival as it transitions us from the horror of Shelley to the weird fiction of Arthur Machen and H. P. Lovecraft. Thus, through these various revivals, King’s\u0000 novel charts the evolution of twentieth- and twenty-first-century horror from Shelley to Lovecraft and our contemporary ‘weird’ moment.","PeriodicalId":41545,"journal":{"name":"Horror Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45067441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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