Foreword: Fear of Film: Cinema and Affective Entanglements, Kendall Phillips
Introduction: The Horror of Relations, Jonathan Beever
Section 1: Familial Relations
Chapter 1: Love and Horror: In Bong Joon-Ho’s Mother and Lee Chang-Dong’s Poetry, Eunah Lee
Chapter 2: Predatory Masculinity and Domestic Violence in Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter, David Baumeister
Chapter 3: “Will God Forgive Us?: Interdependence and Self-Transcendence in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed”, Vernon W. Cisney
Section 2: Social-Political Relations
Chapter 4: The Dark Night Of Ecological Despair: Awaiting Reconsecration in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed, Chandler Rogers and Tober Corrigan
Chapter 5: The Horror of Interdependence: Climate Migration Anxiety by the Radical Right in Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja’s Aniara (2018) and Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019), Sydney Lane
Chapter 6: Dissecting the Corrupted Body Politic: Fear, ‘Body Horror’ and the Failure of Relations, Josh Grant-Young
Chapter 7: The Danger of Ecological and Economic Interdependence in the Films of Cormac McCarthy, Jonathan Elmore and Rick Elmore
Section 3: Techno-Ecological Relations
Chapter 8: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth: The Horror of Being Prey and Forgetting Nature, Yet Again, in Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, Eric S. Godoy
Chapter 9: Weird Ecologies and the Uncanny in The Happening, Brian Onishi
Chapter 10: Resident Evil, the Zomborg, and the Dark Side of Technological Interdependence, Jonathan Beever
Chapter 11: When the Flame Goes Out: The Horror of Connected Consciousness, Luis Favela
Conclusion: Imaginaries of Interdependence, Jonathan Beever
Coda: Difficult Intersubjectivity: Interdependence and Cinematic Ethics, Robert Sinnerbrink