Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership (Routledge Advances in Film Studies)

Xavier Aldana Reyes

ISBN 10: 0415749824 / ISBN 13: 9780415749824

Published by Routledge 2016-03-14, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership (Routledge Advances in Film Studies)
• Publisher: Routledge 2016-03-14
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415749824
• ISBN 13: 9780415749824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.

About the Author

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