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212 pp., 13 fig. col., 27 fig. b/w. A good and clean copy. - Summary: This book describes the main characteristics that define the emotion of fear, 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. - Contents: I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Starting Hypothesis, Objectives, Theoretical and Methodological Foundations, Fundamental Concepts and Structure of the Book -- 1.1 Starting assumptions and objectives -- 1.2 Theoretical and methodological basis -- 1.3 Fundamental concepts: the social imaginary, crisis, fear and the other -- Chapter 2. Crisis, Fear, and Xenophobia in Horror Cinema -- 2.1. Terror, horror or fantasy films? -- 2.2. Terror films, crisis, and fear -- 2.3. Horror cinema and colonial racism: the monster and the space and time it inhabits -- Chapter 3 Crisis And Fear In King Kong -- 3.1. Crisis or the four American versions of King Kong -- 3.2. Four crises - related to economy, ecology, terrorism, and the military- or Modernity as a crisis -- 3.3. Types of fear provoked by crisis and King Kong -- II. "Terror of History" and "Refuge in Nature" or "Shelter in Cinema" -- Chapter 4. Nostalgia for the Origin -- 4.1. The departure of History towards the island of Nature -- 4.2. Skull Island or the Mystery of Death and Origin -- 4.3. The rites of the tribe, or the return to the same old order, reinforced -- 4.4. The survival of religiousness in the city of skyscrapers -- 4.5. Nostalgia for the origins of New York City -- III. Crisis and Fear of the other in King Kong -- Chapter 5. King Kong and the Internal and External Fear of the Other -- 5.1. King Kong, the feared Other -- Chapter 6. Fear of the Black Race -- 6.1. King Kong's colonial racism -- 6.2. Economic and social racism -- 6.3. King Kong, the black gorilla -- 6.4. The Western Hunter's Voyeurism on the "primitive" colored tribal people -- 6.5. King Kong or the buried impulses of the civilized human being -- 6.6. The evolution towards the coexistence of black and white individuals -- Chapter 7. Male Fear of Women -- 7.1. The female object of male erotic desire: abducted, undressed, and penetrated -- 7.2. The woman as an object of male fear: a permanent problem, a memory of temptation and sin, and a source of war -- 7.3. The battle between Beauty and the Beast, between Nature and Civilization -- 7.4. Continuities and changes in patriarchal thinking as regards women and their bodies -- IV. Epilogue: From the Industrial to the Digital Society, from Modernity to Late Modernity -- Chapter 8. The Crisis, or Where We Come From and Where We are Going -- 8.1. Modernity as a crisis: from the industrial society to a digital one, from Modernity to Late Modernity -- 8.2. Crisis and fear of the Other: the circularity of fear -- 8.3. Fear of the Black Race: the heart of barbarism is just a few minutes away from civilization. -- 8.4. Fear of Women: King Kong versus Instrumental Rationality -- Final coda: the silent scream. ISBN 9783631883105 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 280.
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