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Deformed and Destructive Beings: The Purpose of Horror Films

By George Ochoa

Book information

Publisher
McFarland
Year
2011
ISBN
0786463074, 9780786463077
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2771395 bytes)
Pages
235\236
Time added
2014-12-28 15:33:47

Description

Why are audiences drawn to horror films? Answers to that question include everything from a need to experience fear to a hunger for psychotherapy. This critical text proposes that the horror film's primary purpose is to present monsters, best understood as deformed and destructive beings. These monsters satisfy the audience's desire to know the extremities of being, in particular those beings too fantastic and dangerous to know in real life. The text illuminates many aspects of the horror film genre, including epistemology, ethics, evaluation, history, monster taxonomy, and filmmaking techniques.

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