New Book “Mastering Fear: Women, Emotions, and Contemporary Horror” (Bloomsbury) by Rikke Schubart
06Dec

New Book “Mastering Fear: Women, Emotions, and Contemporary Horror” (Bloomsbury) by Rikke Schubart

by Rikke Schubart in Forum

Mastering Fear: Women, Emotions, and Contemporary Horror. NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

 ByRikke Schubart, University of Southern Denmark

 Mastering Fear analyzes horror as play and examines what functions horror has and why it is adaptive and beneficial. It takes a biocultural approach, and focusing on emotions, gender, and play, it argues we play with fiction horror. In horror we engage with a wide range of emotions, both positive and negative. The book lays out a new theory of horror and analyzes female protagonists in contemporary horror (2000–2017) from child to teen, adult, middle age, and old age. For more info please click here: https://goo.gl/7g1knP

2 thoughts on “New Book “Mastering Fear: Women, Emotions, and Contemporary Horror” (Bloomsbury) by Rikke Schubart”

  1. Carl Plantinga
    Dec 6, 2018

    Congratulations, Rikke!

  2. Rikke Schubart
    Dec 7, 2018

    Dear Carl,

    thanks! And thank you so much for your help with reading and commenting – this was an immense help and I took your advice on the bullet points, In the theoretical chapter each section ends with bullet points.

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