It is? How do you figure? MT @HeerJeet Horror is the dominant genre of contemporary culture.
@stevenwbeattie The zombie craze. The torture that seeps into many films. Literary writers with horror subtext.
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@HeerJeet Well, Zero Dark Thirty features torture, but I'd hesitate to call it genre horror. (Though there are horrifying things about it.) -
@stevenwbeattie Maybe I'm being too broad but I think subtext of unease/dread is in many cultural products. Dark30 being one example of many
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@HeerJeet And literary writers have always used horror tropes in their fiction (cf. Henry James, William Faulkner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman) -
@stevenwbeattie True, Gothic ha always been there. But seems more pervasive right now. Didn't remember it as powerful in 1990s. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet Also Hawthorne, Chaucer, Shakespeare, etc.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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