No. 20 – Terrains Vagues (2006)

Edited by David R. Willingham

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Table of Contents

• Essays
• Body Languages: Reading the Corpse in Forensic Crime Fiction, pp 7-32
  Lee Horsley
  
• The Lady Van(qu)ishes: Interiority, Abjection, and the Function of Rape in Horror Film, pp 33-65
  Eugenie Brinkema
  
• Consuming the Impossible Body: Horror Film and the Spectacle of Cinematic Special Effects, pp 66-79
  Steffen Hantke
  
• Painting the Life Out of Her: Aesthetic Integration and Disintegration in Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la maison Usher, pp 80-95
  Guy Crucianelli
  
• The Reader of Maps, pp 96-111
  Tom La Farge
  
• New Mysteries of Paris: The Riddling of the City in Cara Black’s Detective Novels, pp 112-128
  Carolyn A. Durham
  
• Colson Whitehead: The Final Frontier,  pp 129-150
  Jane Rosenberg LaForge
  
• The Shared Bed of Slash and Science Fiction, pp 151-172
  Patricia K.L. Goon
  
• Whatever Walked There, Walked Alone: The Feminist Supernatural in Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Shirley Jackson, and Fay Weldon, pp 173-184
  Julie Nash
  
• Violent Cities: Virility and B-Movie Fascism in the Cop Films of Umberto Lenzi, pp 185-200
  Timothy C. Campbell
  
• The Family Romance of the Numen: The Quest of the Unself in Altered States, pp 201-218
  Jonathan David York
  
• The Way We Live Now: David Damrosch’s Meetings of the Mind, pp 219-234
  Rudolphus Teeuwen
  
• Outcast Narrative, pp 235-246
  Harold Jaffee
  
• Evolutions of the Fantasy Hero in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and Lois McMaster Bujold’s The Curse of Chalion, pp 247-262
  Sylvia Kelso
  
• Backwater of History: Alexandre Dumas and the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799, pp 263-286
  Vittorio Frigerio
  
• Reviews
• Review of Shape-Shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction, pp 287-290
  Brian Attebery
  
• Review of Virtual Geographies: Cyberpunk at the Intersection of the Postmodern and Science Fiction, pp 291-295
  David Banash
• Review of Silent Film Sound, pp 296-300
  Guy Crucinelli
• Review of Expelled From Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader, pp 301-305
  Brian Evenson
• Review of Le Vampire dans la literature du XXe siècle, pp 306-311
  Gwyneth Jones
• Review of The Horror Film, pp 312-314
  Steffen Hantke
• Review of Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe, pp 315-317
  Steffen Hantke
• Fetish Sport, pp 318-323
  Harold Jaffee
• Review of Sacred Literature, pp 324-327
  Mark McGurl
• Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and Severed Heads: Review of Harold Jaffee’s 15 Serial Killers, pp 328-333
  Jay McRoy
• John Carpenter: No Respect?, pp 334-339
  Philip L. Simpson
• Review of La Terreur et le sacré: La nuit gothique américaine, pp 340-344
  Rudolphus Teeuwen
• Review of Back in the Spaceship Again, pp 345-349
  Gary Westfahl