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Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
ISBN
0415749824, 9780415749824
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1743763 bytes)
Series
Routledge Advances in Film Studies 47
Edition
1
Pages
220\221
Time added
2020-04-12 12:49:48

Description

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. Dedication Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: The Affective-Corporeal Dimensions of Horror 1 Representation: Abjection, Disgust and the (Un)Gendered Body 2 Emotion: Cognition, Threat and Self-Reflection 3 Somatics: Startles, Somatic Empathy and Viewer Alignment Conclusion: Horror Film and Affect Index

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