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A Silent Scream: An Approach to «King Kong» and the Evolution of the Contemporary American Imaginary
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
29.08.2022
Abbildungen
mit 42 Abbildungen
Herausgeber
Lisa GottoVerlag
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenSeitenzahl
212
Maße (L/B/H)
21/14.8/1.2 cm
Gewicht
282 g
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-631-88310-5
This book describes the main characteristics that define the emotion of fear
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its dimensions, functions, types, and social and individual meanings. It also shows that fear represents a desire to eliminate the Other and that horror films have their origin precisely in crisis and fear, which gives it a fundamentally xenophobic nature. This is demonstrated in the book through the analysis of the four most important versions of the King Kong myth: 1933, 1976, 2005 and 2017. These versions are the result of the fear of the Other that was generated by particular crises in US society: the stock market crash of 1929, the 1970s energy crisis, 9/11 and the military intervention in Iraq in 2003 and its consequences. These conflicts also led to psychological and sociological effects that created a desire for escape that King Kong's films manifest.
,
its dimensions, functions, types, and social and individual meanings. It also shows that fear represents a desire to eliminate the Other and that horror films have their origin precisely in crisis and fear, which gives it a fundamentally xenophobic nature. This is demonstrated in the book through the analysis of the four most important versions of the King Kong myth: 1933, 1976, 2005 and 2017. These versions are the result of the fear of the Other that was generated by particular crises in US society: the stock market crash of 1929, the 1970s energy crisis, 9/11 and the military intervention in Iraq in 2003 and its consequences. These conflicts also led to psychological and sociological effects that created a desire for escape that King Kong's films manifest.
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