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Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work

Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work


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How work and capitalism inspire horror in modern film. American ideals position work as a source of pride, opportunity, and meaning. Yet the ravages of labor are constant grist for horror films. Going back decades to the mad scientists of classic cinema, the menial motel job that prepares Norman Bates for his crimes in Psycho, and the unemployed slaughterhouse workers of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, horror movies have made the case that work is not so much a point of pride as a source of monstrosity. Editors Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton assemble the first study of horror's critique of labor. In the 1970s and 1980s, films such as The Shining and Dawn of the Dead responded to deindustrialization, automation, globalization, and rising numbers of women in the workforce. Labors of Fear explores these critical issues and extends them in discussions of recent works such as The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Midsommar, Survival of the Dead, It Follows, Get Out, and Us. Covering films ranging from the 1970s onward, these essays address novel and newly recognized modes and conditions of labor: reproductive labor, emotion work and emotional labor, social media and self-branding, intellectual labor, service work, precarity, and underemployment. In its singular way, horror continues to make spine-tingling sense of what is most destructive in the wider sociopolitical context of US capitalism.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction (Jason Middleton and Aviva Briefel) Part I. How Horror Works: Killing, Dying, Surviving Chapter 1. Tools of the Trade: A Statistical Analysis of Slasher Hardware (Marc Olivier) Chapter 2. Every Ritual Has Its Purpose: Laboring Bodies in The Autopsy of Jane Doe (David Church) Chapter 3. George A. Romero and the Work of Survival (Adam Lowenstein) Part II. Working from Home: Domestic, Gendered, and Emotional Labor Chapter 4. Sonic Gothic: Listening to the Exhaustion of Gendered Domestic Labor in The Babadook and The Swerve (Lisa Coulthard) Chapter 5. No Drama: Emotion Work in Midsommar (Jason Middleton) Chapter 6. Reproductive Technics and Time: Ectogestational Labor, Biotechnological Horror, Social Reproduction (Alanna Thain) Part III. Stolen Work, Stolen Play: Race and Racialized Labor Chapter 7. “We Want to Take Our Time”: The Hard Work of Leisure in Jordan Peele’s Us (Aviva Briefel) Chapter 8. Racing Work and Working Race in Buppie Horror (Mikal J. Gaines) Chapter 9. The Horror of Stagnation; or, The Perspectival Dread of It Follows (Joel Burges) Chapter 10. Fieldwork: Anthropology and Intellectual Labor in Ari Aster’s Midsommar (Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb) Afterword: The Work of Horror after Get Out (Catherine Zimmer) List of Contributors Index

About the Author :
Aviva Briefel is the Edward Little Professor of the English Language and Literature and Cinema Studies at Bowdoin College and the coeditor of Horror after 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror. Jason Middleton is an associate professor of English and film and media studies at the University of Rochester and the author of Documentary’s Awkward Turn: Cringe Comedy and Media Spectatorship.

Review :
An intriguing array of essays that consider horror and various forms of labor and work. . . By analyzing and reflecting on these films-and how labor and work in all their forms relate to the terror of the contemporary-this collection illuminates the fears and frights to be found not only in the cinema but also in one's own occupations. (CHOICE) Labors of Fear makes a strong case that the horror genre has, in fact, understood that work is a monstrous presence in most of our lives all along, and the genre has been offering the resources to help us rethink what work can and should be . . . Thus, one of the main accomplishments of Labors of Fear is the simple act of lingering on aspects of work . . . It’s all presented in clear, readable prose, with a minimum of footnotes-well suited for both academics looking to use these essays as jumping-off points for their own work and for horror viewers wanting to find new ways to pay attention to their favorite films. (Los Angeles Review of Books) From the very introduction of Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work, editors Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton posit that modern horror films challenge the concept of the so-called American dream in unique and complex ways . . . The beauty of such a conception is that is allows for a plethora of approaches and associated themes, as evidenced by the chapters that follow . . . Labors of Fear presents ground-breaking additions to the field. Altogether, the innovative nature and plasticity of this text makes it an invaluable addition to the library of many scholars interested in horror studies, film, and associated topics. (The Journal of Popular Culture) Not only a groundbreaking study of its own accord, but also stands as an inspiring call for further work on horror and/of labour. It is both a fascinating critical accompaniment to the films it covers, and an important standalone scholarly intervention. (Monstrum)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781477327210
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1477327215
  • Publisher Date: 20 Jun 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 513 gr


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