About this Book

• In theorizing transnational genre hybridity, this book brings a new perspective to the practice of transnational cinema studies and contributes to the ongoing reconsideration of the potential meanings of the term and its application in film studies.
• This book reveals the importance of film culture as a key site generating discourse regarding transnationalism and genre—discourse that shapes filmmaking and thus can be usefully mined for insights by scholars of transnational cinema, horror and other so-called low culture genres, and national cinemas like British cinema, wherein there is significant overlap between industry personnel, critics, and government funding bodies.
• This book presents horror studies scholars with a new approach to both horror’s status as culturally-debased "bad object" and the genre hybridity that has been taken as simply a feature of postmodern filmmaking. This area of scholarship has long primarily focused on national anxieties.