Horror Film and Affect

Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-415-74982-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 416 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aldana Reyes, Xavier

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Affective-Corporeal Dimensions of Horror 1.Representation: Abjection, Disgust and the (Un)Gendered Body 2. Emotion: Cognition, Threat and Self-Reflection 3. Somatics: Startles, Somatic Empathy and Viewer Alignment Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Xavier Aldana Reyes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.