Table of Contents

Terror of the Soul: An Introduction - Gina Freitag and André Loiselle

I – SHAPING THE CANADIAN HORROR LANDSCAPE
1. Monsters Up North: A Taxonomy of Terror – Caelum Vatnsdal
2. Viral Culture: Canadian Cultural Protectionism and Pontypool – Andrea Subissati

II – THE TERRITORIES OF HORROR: TERROR STORIES ON PAGE AND SCREEN
3. Blood in the Bush Garden: Indigenization, Gender and Unsettling Horror – Aalya Ahmad
4. Pure Laine Evil: The Horrifying Normality of Québec’s Ordinary Hell in the Film Adaptations of Patrick Senécal’s ‘Romans d’Épouvante’ – André Loiselle

III – A GOLDEN AGE OF GORE: THE TAX SHELTER SLASHER
5. (Who’s in the) Driver’s Seat: The Canadian Brute Unleashed in Death Weekend – Paul Corupe 
6. The Creation and Codification of the Forest Slasher during the Tax Shelter Years 1977–1982 – Mark R. Hasan

IV – THE TRUE NORTH, STRONG AND VIOLENT: ECO-HORROR IN CANADA
7. The [Hostile] Nature of Things: A Cultural Dialogue on Environmental Survival – Gina Freitag 
8. Eco-Horror and Boundary Transgressions in Orca: The Killer Whale – Peter Thompson

V – HORROR BY ANY OTHER NAME: ANIMATION AND THE AVANT GARDE
9. A Song From the Heart Beats the Devil Every Time: The Fear of Selling out in Nelvana’s The Devil and Daniel Mouse and Rock and Rule – Kier-La Janisse 
10. Where is Fear? Space, Place, and the Sense of Horror in the Canadian Avant-Garde Film – Scott Birdwise

VI – BLOOD, GUTS, AND BEYOND: AN HOMAGE TO CRONENBERG
11. Traces of Horror: the Later Films of David Cronenberg – Bill Beard
12. The Physician as Mad Scientist: A Fear of Deviant Medical Practices in the Films of David Conenberg – James Burrell
13. Contagious Characters: Cronenberg's Rabid, Demarbre's Smash Cut and the Reframing of Porn- fame – Sean Moreland

‘Canadian Mental-Case’: A Conclusion – Gina Freitag and André Loiselle

Bibliography
Filmography

Promotional Information

"An interesting and wide-ranging collection that makes a valuable contribution to work on both Canadian film and the genre of horror" -- Mark Jancovich, Professor of Film Studies, School of Film, Television, and Media Studies, University of East Anglia "This volume represents a welcome expansion of both horror film studies and Canadian film studies." -- Adam Lowenstein, Director, Film Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, author of 'Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media'

About the Author

Gina Freitag is an independent scholar and the founder of the Cellar Door Film Festival in Ottawa.

André Loiselle is a professor in the Film Studies program and assistant vice-president (Academic) at Carleton University.

Reviews

‘These excellent essays identify precisely what sets the Canadian horror film apart from its American and British brethren…. Highly recommended.’
*Choice Magazine vol 53:08:2016*