WASTELAND: THE GREAT WAR AND THE ORIGINS OF MODERN HORROR
Book ID/图书代码： 03371018C00002
English Summary/英文概要： In the early twentieth century, World War I was the most devastating event humanity had yet experienced. New machines of war left tens of millions killed or wounded in the most grotesque of ways. The Great War remade the world’s map, created new global powers, and brought forth some of the biggest problems still facing us today. But it also birthed a new art form: the horror film, made from the fears of a generation ruined by war.
From Nosferatu to Frankenstein’s monster and the Wolf Man, from Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau, and Albin Grau to Tod Browning and James Whale, the touchstones of horror can all trace their roots to the bloodshed of the First World War. Historian W. Scott Poole chronicles these major figures and the many movements they influenced. Wasteland reveals how bloody battlefields, the fear of the corpse, and a growing darkness made their way into the deepest corners of our psyche.
On the one-hundredth anniversary of the signing of the armistice that brought World War I to a close, W. Scott Poole takes us behind the front lines of battle to a no-man’s-land where the legacy of the War to End All Wars lives on.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 二十世纪初期，第一次世界大战是人类经历过的最具毁灭性的事件。全新的战争机器用最怪诞的方式令数千万人死亡或受伤。一战重塑了世界地图，诞生了新的世界大国，同时也带来了一些我们当前所面临的大问题。但是一战也催生了一种全新的艺术形式：恐怖电影——基于被战争毁灭的一代人的恐惧。从《不死僵尸》到《弗兰肯斯坦》的怪兽和《狼人》，从弗里茨•朗，F•W•穆尔诺，阿尔滨•格尔奥到托德•布朗宁和詹姆斯惠尔，对恐怖主题的小试牛刀都可以追溯到一战的杀戮。历史学家W•斯科特•普尔介绍了相关的主要人物，记录了他们所影响过的众多运动。《荒原》揭示了血腥的战场，对尸体的恐惧，以及逼入我们心灵最深处的黑暗。至此一战停战协议签署一百年纪念日之际，W•斯科特•普尔将我们从战争的前线带到一块无人的土地，在那里利用战争的遗产可以结束了一切战争（XMM）
Awards/获奖情况：对《荒原》的赞誉：
“一本深入彻底的文化研究，引人入胜……普尔用充满说服力的方式指出，恐怖题材作为一种艺术类型的诞生其根源在于一战史无前例的破坏和大屠杀……对于那些没有考虑到战争背景一点的读者来说，本书的论述将令读者念念不忘。”——《出版人周刊》（星级评论）
“文笔优美，论据中肯，《荒原》颇具说服力地讲述了现代恐怖题材起源于一战这场死亡之舞。”——大卫•J•斯卡尔，《怪物秀：恐怖艺术文化史》作者
W•斯科特•普尔将对恐怖题材经典作品的智慧解读和对20世纪历史、艺术和文学的详细了解结合在一起，深入挖掘流行娱乐电影中的严肃一面。我本以为我已经知道了这个主题，但《荒原》向我介绍了崭新的事实、全新的想法，挖掘出了一战与恐怖电影之间的联系。这是一部高级的文化历史：充满智慧，富有生气，通顺易读。
Praise for Wasteland
"Thoroughly engrossing cultural study . . . Poole persuasively argues that the birth of horror as a genre is rooted in the unprecedented destruction and carnage of WWI . . . Will make it hard for readers who haven’t considered the wartime context for horror’s emergence to forget it." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Elegantly written and cogently argued, Wasteland convincingly demonstrates the modern horror genre’s origins in the great Dance of Death that was the First World War." ―David J. Skal, author of The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
"W. Scott Poole combines smart readings of the horror classics with detailed knowledge of twentieth-century history, art, and literature to dig deep into the serious side of these popular entertainments. I thought I already knew the subject inside out, but Wasteland introduced me to fresh facts, new ideas, and surprising connections. This is cultural history of a very high order: intelligent, lively, and wonderfully readable." ―Christopher Bram, author of Gods and Monsters
About the Author/作者介绍： W•斯科特•普尔是查尔斯顿学院历史学教授，创作围绕恐怖题材和流行文化。他已经出版的作品包括获奖作品《美国怪兽》和传记《吸血鬼：恐怖黑暗女神》。他凭借其备受好评的传记《霍华德•菲利普斯•洛夫克拉夫特：疯狂的山中》获得了布莱姆•斯托克奖的提名。
W. SCOTT POOLE is a professor of history at the College of Charleston who teaches and writes about horror and popular culture. His past books include th award-winning Monsters in America and the biography Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror. He is a Bram Stoker Award nominee for his critically acclaimed biography of H. P. Lovecraft, In the Mountains of Madness.
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