Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon

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In recent years, the ways in which digital technologies have come to shape our experience of the world has been an immensely popular subject in the horror film genre. Contemporary horror cinema reflects and exploits the anxieties of our age in its increasing use of hand-held techniques and in its motifs of surveillance, found footage (fictional films that appear 'real': comprising discovered video recordings left behind by victims/protagonists) and 'digital haunting' (when ghosts inhabit digital technologies). This book offers an exploration of the digital horror film phenomenon, across different national cultures and historic periods, examining the sub-genres of CCTV horror, technological haunting, snuff films, found footage and torture porn. Digital horror, it demonstrates, is a product of the post 9/11 neo-liberal world view - characterised by security paranoia, constant surveillance and social alienation. Digital horror screens its subjects via the transnational technologies of our age, such as the camcorder and CCTV, and records them in secret footage that may, one day, be found. 9780755603718.0002 9780755603718.0004 9780755603718.0005 9780755603718.0006 9780755603718.ch-001 9780755603718.ch-002 9780755603718.ch-003 9780755603718.ch-004 9780755603718.ch-005 9780755603718.ch-006 9780755603718.ch-007 9780755603718.ch-008 9780755603718.ch-009 9780755603718.ch-010 9780755603718.ch-011 9780755603718.0007 9780755603718.0008 9780755603718.0009