Index
Amanda Digioia
(UCL, London, UK)
Childbirth and Parenting in Horror Texts
ISBN: 978-1-78714-882-6, eISBN: 978-1-78714-881-9
Publication date: 6 July 2017
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Digioia, A. (2017), "Index", Childbirth and Parenting in Horror Texts (Emerald Studies in Alternativity and Marginalization), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 105-109. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78714-881-920171007
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INDEX
“Absent parent”
, 47
Addictions
, 74, 78, 82, 87–88, 92
Afterbirth
, 95–96
Alcohol
, 76–77
abuse
, 74
Aliens
, 13
Amniotic sac
, 18, 19
Anthropophagi females
, 30
Anthropophagus
, 28
Antichrist
, 4
Auerbach, Nina
, 12
Babadook, The
, 5, 38, 40, 45, 46, 49, 53, 54
Bad mothers
, 38
Barker, Clive
, 21
Barrels, Ron
, 24, 25, 26
Birth
, 2, 95
control methods
, 35
Books of Blood, The
, 21
Brain neurotransmitter
, 78
Brood, The
, 40
Burns, Craig William
, 27
Carrie White
, 40, 50
Childhood psychological trauma
, 74
Claire
, 48
Coagula, The
, 68–71
Cohen, Andrew
, 51
Conception
, 1
Creed’s theory
, 10
de Lauretis’ argument
, 9
feminist methodology
, 13
horror texts and films
, 4
“Mad Scientists and Monstrous Mothers”
, 11
motherhood and birth
, 2
object of gender analysis
, 6
PG-13 films
, 1
redeeming moment
, 7
Conolly, Jez
, 19
Coot
, 22, 23
Couvade
, 19, 36
Creed, Barbara
, 9
Creed’s theory
, 10, 19
Croenberg, David
, 40
“Damsel in distress”
, 47, 48
Dead Alive
, 50
Demographics
, 70
Devil’s Advocates series
, 19
Doctor Sleep
, 8, 75–76
Doctor Warthrop’s autopsy of teenage girl
, 28, 29, 30, 34
“Dog whistles”
, 69–70
Dopamine
, 78
Dracula
, 7
“Dry drunk”
, 78
Erlking, The
, 6, 7
Female mitochondrial DNA
, 20
Feminists
, 96
approaches to narratives in texts
, 8
feminine frailty
, 39
methodology
, 13
Fly, The
, 40
Frankenstein
, 8, 11
Freeland, Cynthia A.
, 10–11
Freudian female monstrosity
, 10
Freudian–Lacanian models
, 9
Gender
, 96
Get Out film
, 67
Giant, Cerne Abbas
, 24
Goddess
, 15, 16
Good mother/bad mother dichotomy
, 15
Henrik
, 17, 18
Henry, Will
, 31, 32, 34
Herd-animal reproductive patterns
, 29
Hills Have Eyes, The
, 13
Hippocampus
, 74
Hirsh, Marianne
, 9
Holiness, The
, 26
Horror
, 96
Horror fiction
, 95
Horror film
, 2, 3, 67, 95
Horror texts
, 15, 40, 50, 96
redemption of “bad dads” in
, 55–93
Horror trope
, 57
House of Psychotic Women, The
, 48
Janisse, Kier-La
, 48–49
Kali-Ma (“Black Mother” of Hindu religion)
, 16
Kate
, 18
Kent, Jennifer
, 46
Kramer, Heinrich
, 33
Kristeva’s theory of abjection
, 9
Labor pains
, 15
amniotic sac
, 18
Anthropophagi females description
, 30
Anthropophagus
, 28
Barrels, Ron
, 24, 25, 26
birth control methods
, 35
Coot
, 22, 23
Creed’s theory
, 19
herd-animal reproductive patterns
, 29
horror texts
, 15
Juliette-Thing
, 18–19
literary-critical analysis
, 34
menstruation
, 21
Phallus worship
, 24
Rawhead Rex
, 21, 22, 27–28
reproduction process
, 20
Reverend’s wife died
, 31, 32
“unholy spawn”
, 31
Lauretis, de
, 8, 9
“Law and Order”
, 52
“LET ME IN!”
, 43
“LET ME OUT”
, 54
Lost Boys, The
, 12
Loviatar
, 16
Low birth weight
, 39
“Mad Scientists and Monstrous Mothers”
, 11
Malleus Maleficarum
, 33
Mama
, 50
Masculinity
, 89
“Maternal imagination”
, 38–39
“Maternal impressions”
, 38, 39
model
, 40
theory
, 38
May Day festivities
, 4
Medial prefrontal cortex
, 74
Menstruation
, 21
Microagression
, 69
Miles, Rosalind
, 20, 26
Mister Babadook
, 41, 42, 50
“Monsters”
, 56
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
, 9, 19
Monstrumologist, The
, 4–5, 28, 31, 33, 34
Mother-blame
, 37, 50
Motherhood
, 2, 3, 95
bad mothers
, 38
becomes monstrosity
, 37
“Damsel in distress”
, 47, 48
deep cultural connotations
, 3
feminine frailty
, 39
“Law and Order”
, 52
“LET ME IN!”
, 43
Mother-blame
, 37
Scanners
, 40
MRIs
, 74
The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror
, 10, 11
“New Daughter, The”
, 57–58
New Yorker, The
, 56
Nicholson, Gwen
, 22
Nocturnes
, 57
Noël Carrol’s argument
, 10
Nussbaum, Felicity
, 39
Oedipus tale
, 8
Parenting
, 67
Passion
, 35
Patriarchal fantasy
, 30
Patriarchal ideology
, 30
PG-13 films
, 1
Phallus worship
, 24
Priapus
, 24
Psycho
, 13
Psychological trauma
, 74
Rawhead Rex
, 5, 21, 22, 24, 27–28
Reagan era
, 12
“Reckoning, The”
, 56
Redeeming moment
, 7
Redemption of “bad dads” in horror texts
, 55, 57
abuser trait
, 84–85
acknowledgment of danger
, 61–62
alcohol
, 76–78
“bad good father”
, 64–65
cycle of abuse
, 81–82
Doctor Sleep
, 75–76, 85–86
“Dog whistles”
, 69–70
Dracula
, 65–66
family’s dysfunction
, 80–81
Get Out film
, 67–68, 71–73
hyper-masculine patriarchal ideals
, 90–91
internal feelings
, 78–79
masculinity
, 89–90
mass shooting
, 56–57
“New Daughter, The”
, 57–60
parental attention
, 60–61
positive coping mechanisms
, 86–87
presence of monsters
, 62–64
redeeming moment
, 82–83
regressive behaviors
, 88–89
Shining, The
, 73–75, 87–88, 91–93
psychoanalytic interpretations
, 88–89
strange behavior
, 66
victims
, 79–80
Reproduction
, 2, 20
Reverend’s wife died
, 31, 32
“Rock bottom”
, 75
Sandor Halvorson, Dr.
, 17–18
Scanners
, 40
Shining, The
, 8, 13, 73–75, 91
Shining and Doctor Sleep, The
, 57
The Shining and Eraserhead
, 11
Shiva
, 24
Silence
, 65
Spinsters
, 3
Sprenger, Jacob
, 33
Taboo
, 3
Teenage girl
, 28, 29
Textual analysis of fiction
, 13
Thing, The
, 4, 5, 10, 17, 19
“Uncanny horror”
, 11
“Unholy spawn”
, 31
“Unrelenting efforts”
, 38
Uterine sac
, 19
Vagina dentata
, 5, 16–17, 18, 19, 28, 30, 35
horror texts
, 95
Van Helsing
, 7, 64–66, 70
Western ideal woman
, 3
Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women’s History of the World
, 20
Wicker Man, The
, 4
Womb of woman
, 30
Yancey, Rick
, 28
Yates, Andrea
, 51, 52