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03213aam a2200469 i 4500 001 7F7AFBC68FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220217010136 008 201103s2021 nju b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020042806 020 $a 1978807740 020 $a 9781978807747 020 $a 1978807732 020 $a 9781978807730 035 $a (OCoLC)1196196298 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d IJ5 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN1995.9.H367 $b S39 2021 082 00 $a 791.43/675 $2 23 100 1 $a Schweitzer, Dahlia, $e author. 245 10 $a Haunted homes / $c Dahlia Schweitzer. 264 1 $a New Brunswick : $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a v, 177 pages ; $c 19 cm 490 1 $a Quick takes: movies and popular culture 520 $a "Exploring a crucial yet critically underappreciated trope of horror-the haunted house-Haunted Homes illuminates the ways in which it has come to signify the anxieties, traumas, and terrors of suburban American life. Surprisingly comprehensive and eminently readable, this slim volume establishes beyond a doubt that in movies and television series from The Conjuring to The Haunting of Hill House, "home is where the horror is." Haunted Homes is unique in its focus on what Schweitzer calls the "suburban gothic." Scholarly studies of the supernatural in horror cinema tend to be decidedly ahistorical, suggesting that contemporary films about haunted houses tap into the same fear of the uncanny evoked by eighteenth and nineteenth-century works of European gothic literature. Schweitzer, however, argues that these films are distinctly modern and American, framing them as a dark reflection of suburban life since the 1950s and particularly in the decade following the economic collapse of 2008. Schweitzer undertakes an in-depth examination of the history of suburbia in the United States as well, offering a detailed and informed account of its origins and development. This is a fresh and original approach. It opens up a new way of seeing haunted homes in recent horror cinema and television, setting her book apart from others on the topic. This is consequently a book that will appeal to a wide range of readers, from film scholars and students to fans of the horror genre"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172) and index. 650 0 $a Haunted houses in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Suburbs in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Suburban life in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Suburban life $z United States. 650 7 $a Haunted houses in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02016449 650 7 $a Suburban life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01136930 650 7 $a Suburban life in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01904820 650 7 $a Suburbs in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01200305 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 710 2 $a Rutgers University Press, $e publisher. 830 0 $a Quick takes. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030724.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630012754.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7F7AFBC68FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search