Body genre : anatomy of the horror film

Diffrient, David Scott, 1972- author.

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"In this groundbreaking work, author David Scott Diffrient explores largely understudied facets of cinematic horror, from the various odors permeating classic and contemporary films to the wetness, sliminess, and stickiness of these productions, which, he argues, practically scream out for a tactile mode of textural analysis as much as they call for more traditional forms of textual analysis. Dating back to Carol Clover's and Linda Williams's pio...

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Fear in motion pictures

Horror films History and criticism

Horror films Production and direction

Horror films Psychological aspects

Human body in motion pictures

Motion picture audiences Psychology

Senses and sensation in motion pictures

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Horror & monstrosity studies series Horror and monstrosity studies series

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ISBN:

9781496847973
9781496847966

Description:

ix, 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-291) and index

Contents:

1. Books, bodies, beliefs: Introducing a genre that needs no Introduction
2. Heads will roll, bodies will shake, souls will shatter: Horror film's formative stages and physical changes
3. Corporeality, materiality, mortality: The horror film as "body genre"
4. Going deep, sticking to the surface: Bad deaths and wet bodies
5. Sliced eyeballs and severed ears: On (not) seeing and (not) hearing horror films
6. Dead, but still breathing: The problem of postmortem movement in horror films
7. Smelling like a slaughterhouse: Cinematic olfactics and the stench of horror
8. Shitty, slimy, smelly, smiley: dirty spaces, funny faces, and the textural pleasures of "laughably bad" texts
9. Spooky encounters of the humorously disgusting kind: Clutching hands and hopping corpses, from Hollywood to Hong Kong
Coda. Preparing to be unprepared: Horror film's predictable unpredictability
Notes
Bibliography
Index

LCCN:

2023030776

Control Number:

3286777

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