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Night Rooms : Essays by Gina Nutt is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Night Rooms : Essays about?

"Lovers of the personal essay will be thrilled by this innovative collection." —Publishers Weekly "In a horror movie, an infected character may hide a bite or rash, an urge, an unwellness. She might withdraw or act out, or behave as if nothing is the matter, nothing has happened. Any course of action opposite saying how she feels suggests suffering privately is preferable to the anticipated betrayal of being cast out." Night Rooms is a poetic, intimate collection of personal essays that weaves together fragmented images from horror films and cultural tropes to meditate on anxiety and depression, suicide, body image, identity, grief, and survival. Whether competing in shopping mall beauty pageants, reflecting on childhood monsters and ballet lessons, or recounting dark cultural ephemera while facing grief and authenticity in the digital age, Gina Nutt's shifting style echoes the sub-genres that Night Rooms highlights—spirit-haunted slow burns, possession tales, slashers, and revenge films with a feminist bent. Refracting life through the lens of horror films, Night Rooms masterfully leaps between reality and movies, past and present—because the "final girl's" story is ultimatel

Who reads Night Rooms : Essays?

Author

Gina Nutt

Publisher

Two Dollar Radio

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781953387011

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Horror, Fiction