Embodiment and Horror Cinema

Chapter 1 Darkness into Light: An Introduction to the Four Tissue Types of Horror Cinema

Chapter 2 Elbows and Assholes: The Anal Work Ethic in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

Chapter 3 Spectral Filtering: Smart Television on the “Silver Screen” in Gore Verbinski’s The Ring

Chapter 4 The Red Scare: Marxism, Menstruation, and Stuart Rosenberg’s The Amityville Horror

Chapter 6 Spheres of Orientation: On Why Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm Series Is More Cerebral than One Might Think

Chapter 7 The Alllusion: Intelligent Machines, Ethical Turns, and Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity

Chapter 8 Monster Mishmash: Icon, Intertext, and Integument in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Chapter 9 “Little Children, It is the Last Time”: The Ovolutionary Trees of Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist

Chapter 10 Conclusion