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<p><i>The Wounds of Nations</i> explores the ways in which horror films allow international audiences to deal with the horrors of recent history--from genocide to terrorist outrage and nuclear war to radical political change. Far from being mere escapism or titillation, it shows how horror (whether it be from 1970s America, 1980s Germany, post-Thatcherite Britain or post-9/11 America) is in fact a highly political and potentially therapeutic film genre that enables us to explore, and potentially
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- Author
- Linnie Blake
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780719075933
- Category
- performing arts
- Subjects
- Horror, Performing Arts, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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