Household Horror - (Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory) by Marc Olivier (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>1. The book explores the fears and cultural influences that are connected to objects in horror films. Similar urban legends these objects often reflect underlying cultural fears prevalent at the time.</p> <p>2. The book embraces the playful nature of The Year's Work series at IUP in tone, approach, and structure. As a part of this approach, the chapters are arranged by room in the house and the table of contents resembles a house map.</p> <p>3. The topics presented here already have a social media following; the author gave a paper on houseplant horror at SCMS in 2016 and his paper generated a lot of attention of Twitter. This book appeals not only to fans of horror, but also to people interested in design history, nonhuman trends in philosophy, and ecocriticism.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Take a tour of the house where a microwave killed a gremlin, a typewriter made Jack a dull boy, a sewing machine fashioned Carrie's prom dress, and houseplants might kill you while you sleep. In <i>Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects, </i> Marc Olivier highlights the wonder, fear, and terrifying dimension of objects in horror cinema. Inspired by object-oriented ontology and the nonhuman turn in philosophy, Olivier places objects in film on par with humans, arguing, for example, that a sleeper sofa is as much the star of <i>Sisters</i> as Margot Kidder, that <i>The Exorcist </i>is about a possessed bed, and that <i>Rosemary's Baby</i> is a conflict between herbal shakes and prenatal vitamins. <i>Household Horror</i> reinvigorates horror film criticism by investigating the unfathomable being of objects as seemingly benign as remotes, radiators, refrigerators, and dining tables. Olivier questions what Hitchcock's <i>Psycho</i> tells us about shower curtains. What can we learn from Freddie Krueger's greatest accomplice, the mattress? Room by room, Olivier considers the dark side of fourteen household objects to demonstrate how the objects in these films manifest their own power and connect with specific cultural fears and concerns.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Marc Olivier is Professor of French Studies at Brigham Young University.</p>
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