Animality and Horror Cinema: Creaturely Fear on Film

Peter  Sands; Mo O'Neill; Samantha Hind

Animality and Horror Cinema: Creaturely Fear on Film

Peter Sands^* (Editor), Mo O'Neill (Editor), Samantha Hind (Editor)

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages	266
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-87293-8
Publication status	Published - 2025

Publication series

Name	Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Publisher	Palgrave

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