After a period of monotony lasting over twenty years, American horror cinema is experiencing a renaissance—a renaissance that coincides with recent geopolitical and ideological shifts of rare intensity and violence. As the genre of horror (and its relationship to gender) changes, so too does the global political balance, and with it, of course, the new face of global capitalism emerges.
Jeremi Szaniawski is a professor of comparative literature and film studies and of Polish language and culture (Amesbury Chair) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of two monographs and the editor and co-editor of seven collections, including: Fredric Jameson and Film Theory: Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema (with Keith Wagner and Michael Cramer, 2022) and Kubrick’s Mitteleuropa: The Central European Imaginary in the Films of Stanley Kubrick (with Nathan Abrams, 2024).