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White With Terror: Monstrous Figurations of Whiteness in Post-Studio American Horror
White With Terror: Monstrous Figurations of Whiteness in Post-Studio American Horror
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151343
- ISBN
- 9798382762852
- DDC
- 791
- 저자명
- Smith, Ashley R.
- 서명/저자
- White With Terror: Monstrous Figurations of Whiteness in Post-Studio American Horror
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Northwestern University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 314 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Sconce, Jeffrey A.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation explores the emergence of "whiteness" as a destabilized and monstrous identity in postwar American horror, a period in which the Production Code ended and the rise of an independent film market enabled a more critical examination of U.S. race and class tensions on screens. I contend that these industrial shifts, combined with a dissolving sense of shared national identity in 1960s America and beyond, led to an artistic and cultural climate in which it suddenly became possible to interrogate numerous prevailing societal institutions and "norms," including whiteness - the primary signifier of established "normality" in American and Western culture. Drawing on Richard Dyer's concept of making whiteness "strange" in order to renegotiate its unchecked power and privilege in the Western world, I examine the horror genre's unique suitability to the task of denaturalizing and Othering whiteness by examining cycles of horror films from the latter third of the 20th century in which white racial identity emerged as a topic of horror in conjunction with themes and comorbidities of class, regionality, and levels of visibility and invisibility that attended these demographic intersections. My research centers on three key figures that proliferated as recurrent embodiments of monstrous whiteness in the horror cinema of the time: the impoverished, urbanite-resenting "hillbilly," the "proletariat" serial killer disguised by his superficial averageness, and the privileged and predatory "yuppie." By investigating these three figures and their explicit linkage to whiteness through a constellation of racial, class-based, and regional factors, I analyze how and when certain U.S. horror texts were willing to engage with whiteness as a threatening, predatory, and monstrous identity, whose fears concerning whiteness these artistic inquiries spoke to, and what relevance these works have to ongoing discussions concerning whiteness' heightened visibility and continued, threatening supremacy in American culture.
- 일반주제명
- Film studies
- 일반주제명
- History
- 일반주제명
- Theater
- 일반주제명
- Cinematography
- 키워드
- Critical race
- 키워드
- American horror
- 키워드
- Horror cinema
- 키워드
- Media history
- 기타저자
- Northwestern University Screen Cultures
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-11A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■650 4▼aCinematography
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■653 ▼aHorror cinema
■653 ▼aMedia history
■653 ▼aConcerning whiteness
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■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17161347▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
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