Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Theorising the Victim
- 1 Opening the Gate: Reconfiguring the Child Victim in Stranger Things
- 2 Black Death: Black Victims in 1980s Teen Slashers
- 3 Beyond Binaries: The Position of the Transgender Victim in Horror Narratives
- 4 Through the Looking-Glass: The Gothic Victim in Jordan Peele’s Us
- 5 Postmortem Victimhood: Necrovalue in Phantasm and Dead and Buried
- 6 The Sad Killer: Perpetuating Spaces, Trauma and Violencewithin the Slasher Genre
- 7 “If this is the last thing you see… that means I died”: A Taxonomy of Camera-Operating Victims in Found Footage Horror Films
- 8 Victimhood and Rhetorical Dialectics within Clive Barker’s Faustian Fiction
- 9 Pain Index, Plain Suffering and Blood Measure: A Victimology of Driving Safety Films, 1955–1975
- 10 Biolithic Horror: Stone Victim/Victimisers in Resident Evil Village
- 11 The Potential Victim: Horror Role-Playing Games and the Cruelty of Things
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 March 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Theorising the Victim
- 1 Opening the Gate: Reconfiguring the Child Victim in Stranger Things
- 2 Black Death: Black Victims in 1980s Teen Slashers
- 3 Beyond Binaries: The Position of the Transgender Victim in Horror Narratives
- 4 Through the Looking-Glass: The Gothic Victim in Jordan Peele’s Us
- 5 Postmortem Victimhood: Necrovalue in Phantasm and Dead and Buried
- 6 The Sad Killer: Perpetuating Spaces, Trauma and Violencewithin the Slasher Genre
- 7 “If this is the last thing you see… that means I died”: A Taxonomy of Camera-Operating Victims in Found Footage Horror Films
- 8 Victimhood and Rhetorical Dialectics within Clive Barker’s Faustian Fiction
- 9 Pain Index, Plain Suffering and Blood Measure: A Victimology of Driving Safety Films, 1955–1975
- 10 Biolithic Horror: Stone Victim/Victimisers in Resident Evil Village
- 11 The Potential Victim: Horror Role-Playing Games and the Cruelty of Things
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
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- Re-Imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media , pp. 231 - 246Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2024