Horror and Evil in the Name of Enjoyment
Huang, Han-Yu
This book argues for the significance of ideology critique and moral judgment in the fields of literary, cultural, political and philosophical studies. By drawing on Slavoj ¿i¿ek¿s theory of ideology the author examines postmodern horror films like Jonathan Demme¿s The Silence of the Lambs, multiculturalism, post-September 11 political discourses and the society of enjoyment in terms of paranoia and perversion and reveals patterns of enjoyment...
