Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership

Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership
ISBN-10
1317748794
ISBN-13
9781317748793
Category
Social Science
Pages
206
Language
English
Published
2016-02-12
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Xavier Aldana Reyes

Description

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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