Titlebook: Culture Wars and Horror Movies; Gender Debates in Po Noelia Gregorio-Fernández,Carmen M. Méndez-García Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicab

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Introduction: Culture Wars Revisited: Navigating Gender Dynamics in Post-2010 Social Horror,l practice. Twenty-first-century culture wars, encapsulated in a not-so-latent populism, have become a form of polarization and simplification of social interests and political ideas, poised to accomplish the unity of the people above and against its parts, and constituting a political mode where wa

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Woke Gal Gone Bad: Populism and Gender Trouble in , (2021)uctures the fundamental dialectics of contemporary culture wars. Divisive conflicts between irreducible identities based on emotional, post-enlightened affections have taken over mainstream debates on actual, effectual, and effective politics, so much so that populism(s) arguably need to deploy extr

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Living Deliciously? The Borderless Horror of Female Empowermenteld, and the bonds they form emerge as sites of terror. Emanuele de Feudis’s . (., 2020), ángel Gómez Hernández’s . (., 2020), and Robert Eggers’s . (2015) capitalize on culturally specific traditions of misogyny and present female bodies as repository of ancestral horror. In ., the desperate ghost

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The Culture That “Can’t Anymore”: Ari Aster’s , (2019) as Pilgrimage of a Traumatized Society 2019), this chapter suggests, is . (Aster, 2019) original horrific place or ., while everything else is symbolically organized around it. Noting the allegorical potential of Aster’s film, . horror locus is conceived in relation to the notion of . or “pleasance,” an established literary . for an ide

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Nature: Creation, Apocalypse, Climate Skepticism, and Darren Aronofsky’s , (2017)or the more ambitious art film containing overt biblical allegories and disturbing themes. Aronofsky, known for the religious themes in his work, invested . with numerous references to the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. This allegorical film can be easily read as a visual sermon on creation and env

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Decay and Fear: , (2011) as Social Horrorlast couple of decades. Movies exploring ecological horror have articulated changing viewpoints on the human damage to nature, reminding the audience of the alterations in climate and nature and their detrimental ramifications in the biosphere and human life. Though nature has been perceived as a ha