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Horror Film and Affect (Routledge Advances in Film Studies) - Hardcover

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Aldana Reyes, Xavier

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9780415749824: Horror Film and Affect (Routledge Advances in Film Studies)
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ISBN 10: 0415749824 ISBN 13: 9780415749824
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Xavier Aldana Reyes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415749824
ISBN 13 
9780415749824
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
220
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