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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgy Univeristy Press,
[2021]
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| Collection: | Edinburgh scholarship online
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 Follows, The Witch, It Comes at Night, Get Out, The Invitation, Hereditary, Midsommar, A Ghost Story, and mother! represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has often earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. Post-Horror is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (ix, 270 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474475907 1474475906 1474495257 9781474495257 |