Roundtable: Criminological Understandings of Horror Films: Reel Fear

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract/Description

This roundtable brings together several authors from the book Criminological Understandings of Horror Films: Reel Fear, edited by Krista Gehring, Stacie Merken, Emily Lenning, and Walter DeKeseredy. In this roundtable, editors and authors from the book will discuss how Reel Fear, which is the first book to examine horror films through the lens of criminology, came to be, how crime, crime victims, and criminals are represented in horror films, and the ways that the horror genre contributes to public fears about particular places, people, and identities.

Sub Unit

• Area XIV. Roundtables

Chair

• Stacie Merken, Indiana University South Bend

Discussants

• Walter DeKeseredy, West Virginia University

• Emily Lenning, Fayetteville State University

• Danielle Slakoff, California State University, Sacramento

• Xavier Guadalupe-Diaz, Framingham State University

• Kathleen Ratajczak, Sam Houston State University

• Hannah Torres, California State University, Sacramento

• Lauren Moton, New York University