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Subject(s)

• Horror films—Canada—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Freitag, Gina, 1985- [Browse]
• Loiselle, André [Browse]

Summary note

• "From the cheaply made "tax-shelter" films of the 1970s to the latest wave of contemporary "eco-horror," Canadian horror cinema has rarely received much critical attention. Gina Freitag and Andr ̌Loiselle rectify that situation in The Canadian Horror Film with a series of thought-provoking reflections on Canada's "terror of the soul," a wasteland of docile damnation and prosaic pestilence where savage beasts and mad scientists rub elbows with pasty suburbanites, grumpy seamen, and baby-faced porn stars."-- From publisher's website.
• "Featuring chapters on Pontypool, Ginger Snaps, 1970s slasher films, Quebec horror, and the work of David Cronenberg, among many others, The Canadian Horror Film unearths the terrors hidden in the recesses of the Canadian psyche. It examines the highlights of more than a century of Canadian horror filmmaking and includes an extensive filmography to guide both scholars and enthusiasts alike through this treacherous terrain."-- From publisher's website.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Terror of the soul : an introduction / Gina Freitag and André Loiselle
• Monsters up North : a taxonomy of terror / Caelum Vatnsdal
• Viral culture : Canadian cultural protectionism and Pontypool / Andrea Subissati
• Blood in the bush garden : indigenization, gender, and unsettling horror / Aalya Ahmad
• Pure Laine evil : the horrifying normality of Quebec's ordinary hell in the film adaptations of Patrick Senécal's "Romans de'épouvante" / André Loiselle
• (Who's in the) driver's seat : the Canadian brute unleashed in Death weekend / Paul Corupe
• Rituals : creating the forest slasher within the Canadian tax shelter era / Mark R. Hasan
• The [hostile] nature of things : a cultural dialogue on environmental survival / Gina Freitag
• Eco-horror and boundary transgressions in Orca : the killer whale / Peter Thompson
• A song from the heart beats the devil every time : the fear of selling out in Nelvana's The devil and Daniel Mouse and Rock and rule / Kier-La Janisse
• Where is fear? Space, place, and the sense of horror in the Canadian avant-garde film / Scott Birdwise
• Traces of horror : the later films of David Cronenberg / William Beard
• The physician as mad scientist : a fear of deviant medical practices in the films of David Cronenberg / James Burrell
• Contagious characters : Cronenberg's Rabid, Demarbre's Smash cut, and the reframing of porn-fame / Sean Moreland
• "Canadian mental-case" : a conclusion / Gina Freitag and André Loiselle.

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ISBN

• 9781442650541 ((bound))
• 1442650540 ((bound))
• 9781442628502 ((paperback))
• 1442628502 ((paperback))

LCCN

2016297660

OCLC

907661803

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