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Xavier Aldana Reyes English Literature, Metropolitan University, UK X.Aldana-Reyes@mmu.ac.uk

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Erica Joan Dymond, ed. Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023, 230 pp, $105 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781793633934. Reviewed by Xavier Aldana Reyes

Eleftheria Thanouli, A Guide to Post-classical Narration: The Future of Film Storytelling. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 288 pp, $39.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781501393075. Reviewed by Antonio Loriguillo-López and Teresa Sorolla-Romero

Robert Sinnerbrink, New Philosophies of Film: An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking, 2nd edition. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 432 pp, $29.95 paperback, ISBN: 978-1350181922. Reviewed by Enrico Terrone

Margrethe Bruun Vaage, The Female Avenger, Women's Anger and Rape-Revenge Film and Television, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024, 216 pp, $110 hardback, ISBN: 9781399532099. Reviewed by Iris Vidmar Jovanović

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Xavier Aldana Reyes is reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University. His books include Contemporary Body Horror (2024), Gothic Cinema (2020), and Horror Film and Affect (2016). Email: X.Aldana-Reyes@mmu.ac.uk.

Antonio Loriguillo-López is associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Universitat Jaume I. Email: loriguil@uji.es

Teresa Sorolla-Romero is associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Universitat Jaume I. Email: tsorolla@uji.es

Enrico Terrone is professor of aesthetics at Università di Genova and principal investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) project “The Philosophy of Experiential Artifacts”. His inquiry concerns the relationship between art and technology and his last book is Concept TV: An Aesthetics of Television Series (with Luca Bandirali, 2021). Email: enrico.terrone@unige.it

Iris Vidmar Jovanović is an associate professor and a chair in aesthetics and epistemology at the Department for Philosophy, University of Rijeka. She works primarily at the intersection of philosophy of narrative art, ethics, and epistemology. Email: ividmar@ffri.uniri.hr

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