The labors of fear : the modern horror film goes to work /

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Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2023. ©2023
Description:	vii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Horror films -- History and criticism. Labor in motion pictures. Work in motion pictures. Horror films -- Themes, motives. Horror films. Labor in motion pictures. Work in motion pictures. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13152542

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Other authors / contributors:	Briefel, Aviva, editor. Middleton, Jason, 1971- editor.
ISBN:	9781477327210 1477327215 9781477327227 9781477327234
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The book explores the role of all sorts of labor, and sometimes its lack, in horror films and how the "monstrousness of work" has long played a part in the genre. It addresses not only the economic restructuring that defined the 1970s and 1980s but also modes and conditions of labor that have emerged or gained greater recognition since that period: domestic and reproductive labor, emotion work and emotional labor, the digital economy, social media and self-branding, intellectual and imaginative labor, service work, precarity, and underemployment"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. How Horror Works: Killing, Dying, Surviving
Chapter 1. Tools of the Trade: A Statistical Analysis of Slasher Hardware
Chapter 2. Every Ritual Has Its Purpose: Laboring Bodies in The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Chapter 3. George A. Romero and the Work of Survival
Part II. Working from Home: Domestic, Gendered, and Emotional tabor
Chapter 4. Sonic Gothic: Listening to the Exhaustion of Gendered Domestic Labor in The Babadook and The Swerve
Chapter 5. No Drama: Emotion Work in Midsommar
Chapter 6. Reproductive Technics and Time: Ectogestational Labor, Biotechnological Horror, Social Reproduction
Part III. Stolen Work, Stolen Play: Race and Racialized Labor
Chapter 7. "We Want to Take Our Time": The Hard Work of Leisure in Jordan Peele's Us
Chapter 8. Racing Work and Working Race in Buppie Horror
Chapter 9. The Horror of Stagnation; or, The Perspectival Dread It Follows
Chapter 10. Fieldwork: Anthropology and Intellectual Labor in Ari Aster's Midsommar
Afterword: The Work of Horror after Get Out
List of Contributors
Index

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