S(p)lasher Flicks: The Swimming Pool in Horror Cinema - Softcover

Wade, Cullen

 
9781476698151: S(p)lasher Flicks: The Swimming Pool in Horror Cinema
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1476698155 ISBN 13: 9781476698151
Verlag: McFarland, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Who's afraid of a midnight swim? This book dissects more than 100 horror films, covering nine decades and four continents, in an engaging exploration of the swimming pool as a site of secrets, sexuality, and social segregation. Drawing from cultural history, aquatics research, and sociological critiques, this work confronts aquatic monsters, suburban aliens, queer vampires, death cults, and bloody vengeance. The author dives into the tension of municipal pools as a health and fitness space with a history of discrimination; the roles of residential pools in community building and enforcing boundaries; and the mixed messages (resentment, alienation, prosperity) conveyed by backyard pools. Horror fans, swimmers, aquaphobics, students of pop culture, and others will find the site of the swimming pool forever transformed by this analysis.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Cullen Wade is a writer, musician, and high school teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia. His film writing has appeared in Paste Magazine, Night Tide Magazine, online outlets like Horror Homeroom, HorrorGeekLife, Deaf Sparrow and Boy in a Box, and has been a guest programmer and panelist at the Virginia Film Festival.

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Verlag
McFarland
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1476698155
ISBN 13 
9781476698151
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
260
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