Horror / Brigid Cherry.
Series: Routledge film guidebooksPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009Description: ix, 240 p. : ill. ; 21 cm001: 17392ISBN: 9780415456685; 0415456681Subject(s): Film | Horror films -- History and criticismDDC classification: 791.436164Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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791.43615 SCI Science fiction/horror / | 791.43616 BRU Universal horrors : the studio's classic films, 1931-1946 / | 791.436164 Shocking representation : historical trauma, national cinema, and the modern horror film / | 791.436164 CHE Horror / | 791.436164 GLA The book of horror : the anatomy of fear in film / | 791.436164 HEL Found footage horror films : fear and the appearance of reality / | 791.436164 SPA Uncanny bodies : the coming of sound film and the origins of the horror genre / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Horror cinema is a hugely successful, but at the same time culturally illicit genre that spans the history of cinema. It continues to flourish with recent cycles of supernatural horror and torture porn that span the full range of horror styles and aesthetics. It is enjoyed by audiences everywhere, but also seen as a malign influence by others.
In this Routledge Film Guidebook, audience researcher and film scholar Brigid Cherry provides a comprehensive overview of the horror film and explores how the genre works. Examining the way horror films create images of gore and the uncanny through film technology and effects, Cherry provides an account of the way cinematic and stylistic devices create responses of terror and disgust in the viewer.
Horror examines the way these films construct psychological and cognitive responses and how they speak to audiences on an intimate personal level, addressing their innermost fears and desires. Cherry further explores the role of horror cinema in society and culture, looking at how it represents various identity groups and engages with social anxieties, and examining the way horror sees, and is seen by, society.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-234) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 The Horror Genre: Form and Function
- 2 Horror Aesthetics and Affect
- 3 Horror Cinema and its Pleasures
- 4 Horror and the Cultural Moment Notes Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
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