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3 books match the query 'Dread'
Hope And Dread In Montana Literature
Ken Egan
University of Nevada Press, 2003
This literary survey from a third-generation Montanan includes a thoughtful discussion on the now infamous events of the mid- to late-nineties. The rich literary tradition of Montana, contends author Ken Egan Jr., reflects a catastrophic vision of the West that shows the "horrors of domination" and "the foolish and destructive habits of the imperial heart." Since the 1860s, Montana’s writers have depicted struggles for survival in the state’s dramatic landscape, and for decency in a region characterized by the headlong exploitation of both natural and human resources.
Rage, Shame and Dread
David Lloyd
Seagull Books, 2026
A radical rethinking of dark emotion as critical responses to capitalism, colonial violence, and authoritarian power.
Rage, Shame and Dread is a bold and unsettling exploration of three emotions that resist consolation, correction, or easy political use. In this triptych of essays, David Lloyd dwells with rage, shame, and dread not as states to be managed or redeemed, but as objectless, intransitive forces that interrupt social life and expose its underlying wrongness.
Reading rage as “sheer manifestation,” shame as a catastrophic rupture of self-relation, and dread as anticipation without an object, Lloyd traces how these unpromising emotions emerge from—and register—the violences of capitalism, colonialism, racialization, and authoritarian power. Drawing on Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde, and Søren Kierkegaard, the book moves between philosophy, literature, and political theory to challenge therapeutic and liberal accounts that treat these feelings as errors to be corrected or tools for socialization.
Rather than pathologizing these states, Lloyd reads them as signals of damaged social relations and as thresholds to alternative forms of life-in-common. At once philosophically rigorous and politically urgent, Rage, Shame and Dread offers a radical rethinking of feeling as a site of critique, resistance, and collective possibility.
The Dread of Difference
Gender and the Horror FilmEdited by Barry Keith Grant
University of Texas Press, 2015
“The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It’s rarely on the shelf at my university library, so continuously does it circulate. Now this new edition expands the already comprehensive coverage of gender in the horror film with new essays on recent developments such as the Hostel series and torture porn. Informative and enlightening, this updated classic is an essential reference for fans and students of horror movies.”—Stephen Prince, editor of The Horror Film and author of Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality
“An impressive array of distinguished scholars . . . gazes deeply into the darkness and then forms a Dionysian chorus reaffirming that sexuality and the monstrous are indeed mated in many horror films.”—Choice
“An extremely useful introduction to recent thinking about gender issues within this genre.”—Film Theory