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In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju, Michael Powell, Shindo Kaneto, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg. He shows that through allegorical representations these directors' films confronted and challenged comforting historical narratives and notions of national identity intended to soothe public anxieties in the aftermat

Horror films --- Motion pictures and history. --- History and criticism. --- Adam Lowenstein --- film --- horror --- horrorfilms --- film en geschiedenis --- gender studies --- trauma --- psychologie --- film en psychologie --- Franju Georges --- Powell Michael --- Kaneto Shindo --- Craven Wes --- Cronenberg David --- Ground Zero --- 9/11 --- 791.43 --- Motion pictures and history --- History and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and history --- History --- History and criticism