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Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership

Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership

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Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Film & Video ArtFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138599611
ISBN13: 9781138599611
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 27 2018
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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