Found footage horror films : fear and the appearance of reality / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.
Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, [2014] 2014Description: vii, 236 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0021992655ISBN: 9780786470778 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Horror films -- History and criticism | Safety education
| Performing Arts | Films, cinema | Films, cinema | Literature: history & criticismDDC classification: 791.436164 LOC classification: PN1995.9.H6 | H455 2014Summary: As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets, allowing both major studios and independent productions to participate in the popular phenomenon. Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets, allowing both major studios and independent productions to participate in the popular phenomenon. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies.Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. It examines the diverse prehistory beyond Man Bites Dog (1992) and Cannibal Holocaust (1980), paying attention to the safety films of the 1960s, the snuff-fictions of the 1970s, and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s in particular. It underscores the importance of The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007), and considers YouTube's popular rise in sparking the subgenre's recent renaissance. This book also explores a number of other movies including [Rec] (2007), Home Movie (2007), Exhibit A (2007), Cloverfield (2008), The Tunnel (2010), The Last Exorcism (2010), The Devil Inside (2012), V/H/S (2012) and the popular web series Marble Hornets.
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As the horror subgenre du jour , found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies.
Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. It examines the diverse prehistory beyond Man Bites Dog (1992) and Cannibal Holocaust (1980), paying attention to the safety films of the 1960s, the snuff-fictions of the 1970s, and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s in particular. It underscores the importance of The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007), and considers YouTube's popular rise in sparking the subgenre's recent renaissance.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets, allowing both major studios and independent productions to participate in the popular phenomenon. Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets, allowing both major studios and independent productions to participate in the popular phenomenon. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies.Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. It examines the diverse prehistory beyond Man Bites Dog (1992) and Cannibal Holocaust (1980), paying attention to the safety films of the 1960s, the snuff-fictions of the 1970s, and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s in particular. It underscores the importance of The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007), and considers YouTube's popular rise in sparking the subgenre's recent renaissance. This book also explores a number of other movies including [Rec] (2007), Home Movie (2007), Exhibit A (2007), Cloverfield (2008), The Tunnel (2010), The Last Exorcism (2010), The Devil Inside (2012), V/H/S (2012) and the popular web series Marble Hornets.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. 1)
- Introduction (p. 3)
- Part 1 Expanding the Prehistory: 1938û 1998 (p. 29)
- 1 afety Films (p. 42)
- 2 Snuff- Fictions (p. 58)
- 3 Television (p. 72)
- Part 2 A Critical Chronology: 1998û 2009 (p. 87)
- 4 Revisiting The Blair Witch Project (p. 93)
- 5 The Vanishing of the Real (p. 112)
- 6 Approaching Paranormal Activity (p. 129)
- Part 3 Further Discoveries: 2007û2013 (p. 149)
- 7 Exorcism Films (p. 151)
- 8 The Family (p. 165)
- 9 Nation, History and Identity (p. 178)
- Conclusion: The Specter of Commercialism (p. 192)
- Notes (p. 203)
- Bibliography (p. 217)
- Index (p. 227)
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