This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s - abjection, disgust, cognition, phenomenology, pain studies - to make a significant contribution to the study of fictional moving images of mutilation and the ways in which human bodies are affected by those on the screen on three levels: representationally, emotionally and somatically. Aldana Reyes reads Horror viewership as eminently carnal, and seeks to articulate the need for an alternative model that understands the experience of feeling under corporeal threat as the genre's main descriptor. Using recent, post-millennial examples throughout, the book also offers case studies of key films such as Hostel, [REC], Martyrs or Ginger Snaps, and considers contemporary Horror strands such as found footage or 3D Horror.
| ISBN: | 9781138599611 |
| Publication date: | 27th April 2018 |
| Author: | Xavier Aldana Reyes |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 206 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Film Studies |
| Genres: |
Media studies Philosophy: aesthetics Cultural studies Performance art Film history, theory or criticism Literary studies: general Theatre studies |
This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s - abjection, disgust, cognition, phenomenology, pain studies - to make a significant contribution to the study of fictional moving images of mutilation and the ways in which human bodies are affected by those on the screen on three levels: representationally, emotionally and somatically. Aldana Reyes reads Horror viewership as eminently carnal, and seeks to articulate the need for an alternative model that understands the experience of feeling under corporeal threat as the genre's main descriptor.
Horror Film and Affect features in the following genres: Media studies, Philosophy: aesthetics, Cultural studies, Performance art, Film history, theory or criticism, Literary studies: general, Theatre studies
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Horror Film and Affect was written by Xavier Aldana Reyes and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Horror Film and Affect has 206 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Advances in Film Studies series
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