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A Silent Scream: An Approach to «King Kong» and the Evolution of the Contemporary American Imaginary

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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.weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-631-88310-5 / 978-3631883105 / 9783631883105

Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Erscheinungsdatum: 29.08.2022

Seiten: 212

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Juan Antonio Roche Cárcel
Reihe herausgegeben von Lisa Gotto

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