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Journeys into Terror

Essays from the Cinematic Intersection of Travel and Horror

A Bowdoin Van Riper editor Cynthia J Miller editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc

Published:31st May '24

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Since ancient times, explorers and adventurers have captured popular imagination with their frightening narratives of travels gone wrong. Usually, these stories heavily feature the exotic or unknown, and can transform any journey into a nightmare. Stories of such horrific happenings have a long and rich history that stretches from folktales to contemporary media narratives.

This work presents eighteen essays that explore the ways in which these texts reflect and shape our fear and fascination surrounding travel, posing new questions about the "geographies of evil" and how our notions of "terrible places" and their inhabitants change over time. The volume's five thematic sections offer new insights into how power, privilege, uncanny landscapes, misbegotten quests, hellish commutes and deadly vacations can turn our travels into terror.

The essays that make up this original book offer interesting and well-written arguments that touch on very different cultural and geographical areas of the globe, thus making this volume very attractive and appetizing to different audiences all over the world. This book will certainly be of interest to film studies scholars and students as well, fans of the various directors' works and scholars of travel literature."—Dr. Antonio Sanna, co-editor of the Lexington Books series Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors; Cultore della materia, Università degli Studi di Sassari

ISBN: 9781476684352

Dimensions: 254mm x 175mm x 17mm

Weight: 476g

277 pages