Post-horror : art, genre, and cultural elevation /

Horror's longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Variously dubbed 'elevated horror' and 'post-horror, ' films such as The Babadook, It Follo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Church, David, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgy Univeristy Press, [2021]
Colección:Edinburgh scholarship online
Temas:
Horror films.
Horror films > History and criticism.
Film criticism.
Performing arts.
Films d'horreur.
Films d'horreur > Histoire et critique.
Critique cinématographique.
Arts du spectacle.
performing arts (discipline)
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
Performing arts
Film criticism
Horror films
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Apprehension Engines: Defining a New Wave of Art-Horror Cinema
  • 2. "Slow," "Smart," "Indie," "Prestige," "Elevated": Discursive Struggle for Cultural Distinction
  • 3. Grief, Mourning, and the Horrors of Familial Inheritance
  • 4. Horror by Gaslight: Epistemic Violence and Ambivalent Belonging
  • 5. Beautiful, Horrible Desolation: Landscape in Post-Horror Cinema
  • 6. Queer Ethics and the Urban Ruin-Porn Landscape: The Horrors of Monogamy in It Follows
  • 7. Existential Dread and the Trouble with Transcendence.

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