دانلود کتاب Mastering Fear: Women, Emotions, and Contemporary Horror

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Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Epigraph
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF TABLES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction Approaching the Problem
Playing with Horror
Unpleasant and Fun
Only Humans have Gender
Defining Horror
The Structure of Mastering Fear
1 The Dark Stage
EMOTIONS
What are Emotions?
System 1 and System 2
Positive and Negative Emotions
The Horror Experience
GENDER
Throwing Like a Girl
Thinking Like a Woman
Gender and Change
Evofeminism
PLAY
What is Play?
Play Fighting
From Animal Play to Human Play
Playing on the Edge
Aggression
Three Basic Horror Narratives
Horror as Play
Child
2 Mud, Blood, and Magic: Genre and Gender in Pan’s Labyrinth
Anchor Points and Default Rules
Into the Labyrinth
Fairy-Tale Expectations
With a Child’s Eyes
The Meaning of Mud
A Task and a Monster
Beauty Meets the Beast
A Trial and Disobedience
The Meaning of Magic
The Fantastic and the Melodrama
Hero or Victim?
A Final Anchor Point
3 The Bio-Logic of Vengeance in Let the Right One In
The Vampire Triptych
The “Piggy Game”
Play Fighting and Cruel Play
Sex and Gender: “I am not a girl”
From Friends to Lovers: The Romeo and Juliet Theme
The Bio-Logic of Justice
The Ethics of Vengeance
Scar as Passage and Border
Conclusion
Teen & Emerging Adult
4 “She Made a Choice”: Werewolf Affordances and Female Character Development
Lycanthropy
Werewolf Affordances
Wilderness : Wolf as Zen Master
Ginger Snaps: Menarche as Mayhem
Menarche: Disease and Shame
Hemlock Grove: A Crazy Vargulf
Fantastic Transformations
Explosive Plasticity as Character Development
Deep Ecology
Bitten : The Neofeminist Wolf
Sex and the Single Werewolf
Mastering Change and Desire
The Evofeminist Werewolf
5 Lust, Trust, and Educational Torture: The Vampire Diaries
Sexual Selection Theory Revisited
Caroline: Stupid and Shallow
The Sexual Emotions
Abuse and Self-Confidence
Managing Lust and Love
Trust, Pain, and Play
Friends and a Climate of Trust
Restoring Trust
Who Do You Trust?
Trust, Educational Torture, and Change
The Doubling of Choices
Adult
6 Disgust and Self-Injury: In My Skin, Martyrs, Black Swan
Disgust
New French Extremity
Self-Injury
In My Skin : Fascinating Flesh
Cut N Slash Transgression
A New Ethics of Viewing
Martyrs : Third Wave French Extremity
When Self-Injury is Comforting
The White Mouse
The Feel-Bad Experience
Black Swan : A “Delicate Cutter”
Ordinary Disgust
“To Beauty”
The Magic Circle and the Moral Circle
Conclusion
7 The Maternal Myth: Birth, Breastfeeding, Mothering
Mother: The Good, the Bad, and the Real
Inside : “Completely Unwatchable”
Terror and a Real Maternal Body
Who is the Good Mother?
Grace : “It’s All About Maintaining Your Diet”
Milk: “A Whole New Level of Freaky”
Mother Discourses
The Babadook : “This Monster Thing”
Meta-Play
Princess Play and Monster Play
Wild, Deep, and Dark Play
Conclusion
Middle Age
8 Home and Road: Carol’s Change in The Walking Dead
Graphic-Novel Carol and Television Carol
Change
House and Home
Home Is Where You Die
Alexandria
The Chronotope of the Road
The End of the Road
Stepping Up
“You Have to Change”
Two Kinds of Freedom
Eudaimonia
Surviving Middle Age
9 Age Anxiety and Chills: Jessica Lange and American Horror Story
The Emotion of Interest
Fiona, Supreme Witch
Ageism
Millennials and WAG s
The Bad Mother
Sex, Love, and Hell
Freaks and Chills
Piecing Together Elsa Mars
Lange Doing Lange
The Void of Identity
Old
10 Abyss and Peak: The New Old Woman
Penny Dreadful and Patti LuPone
The Old Woman
Joan: Witch and Wise Woman
The Witch in History
Dr. Seward: Scientist and Survivor
The Wise Woman in the White Room
Cool and Edgy
The New Old Woman
Exit Playing the Ball Back to the Universe
APPENDIX 1
APPENDIX 2
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FILMOGRAPHY
INDEX