Kevin Wetmore, who I have interviewed on this blog previously on his book Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema, let me know that the forthcoming issue of Social Research: An International Quarterly 84.1 (Winter 2014) has an interesting focus. It will explore horror in society.
Here is the Table of Contents:
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
pp. v-xix
Ebby Sharifi
Editor’s Introduction
pp. xxi-xxii
Arien Mack
Horrors and Horror: The Response of Tragedy
pp. 739-767
David Tracy
Christian Demonology in Contemporary American Popular Culture
pp. 769-793
Armando Maggi
The Liberalism of Horror
pp. 795-823
Elisabeth Anker
Metaphor of the Living Dead: Or, the Effect of the Zombie Apocalypse on Public Policy Discourse
pp. 825-849
Daniel W. Drezner
When the Vampires Come for You: A True Story of Ordinary Horror
pp. 851-882
Adam Ashforth
Colonial Possessions: A Fanonian Reading of The Exorcist and its Sequels
pp. 883-896
Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
Better Horrors: From Terror to Communion in Whitley Strieber’s Communion (1987)
pp. 897-920
Jeffrey J. Kripal
The Horrors of Witchcraft and Demonic Possession
pp. 921-939
Brian P. Levack
Monsters on the Brain: An Evolutionary Epistemology of Horror
pp. 941-968
Stephen T. Asma
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