Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque
Notes on Contributors -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Theoretical Intervention: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Grotesque Body -- Theoretical Intervention: Dis/Ability: Destabilizing Cultural Scripts of Embodiment -- Part I: Questions of Genre -- Mike Dillon -- Kevin Wynter -- Sangjoon Lee -- Part II: The Horrific Body (Disability and Horror) -- Julia Gruson-Wood -- Stefan Sunandan Honisch -- Moritz Fink -- Paul Rae Marchbanks -- Part III: Responses to Trauma -- Mary J. Ainslie -- Raphael Raphael -- Sophia Siddique -- References -- Part I: Questions of Genre -- Chapter 2: Butchered in Translation: A Transnational "Grotesuqe" -- Unrated and Unauthorized -- (Mis)Translation -- The Generic Image of Torture (Porn) -- "Grotesuqe" -- Notes -- References -- Filmography -- Chapter 3: An Introduction to the Continental Horror Film -- Phases of the Horror Film -- The Rise of the Serial Killer -- Without a Trace -- Continental Horror -- Morbid Curiosity -- The Stranger -- Contingency -- The Banality of Evil -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Dracula, Vampires, and Kung Fu Fighters: The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires and Transnational Horror Co-production in 1970s Hong Kong -- Runaway Production: From Europe to Hong Kong -- Before the Legend: The Birth of Kung Fu Cinema -- The Legend Begins: Between Kung Fu and Horror -- Reading the Legend -- Epilogue -- References -- Part II: The Horrific Body (Disability and Horror) -- Chapter 5: Dead Meat: Horror, Disability, and Eating Rituals -- Monster Slash: Severing Inside/Outside Boundaries -- Scare Tactics: Disabling Evil and Normalizing Catharsis -- Supernaturally Disabled: Flexible, Powerful Monstrous Bodies -- Dishing Out a Scare: Disability, Monstrosity, and Eating in Horror -- Monsters Feeding Off Death