| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge film guidebooks |
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Routledge film guidebooks.
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| Contents |
1. The horror genre: form and function -- 2. Horror aesthetics and affect -- 3. Horror cinema and its pleasures -- 4. Horror and the cultural moment |
| Summary |
"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."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Horror films -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Horror films
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008034974 |
| ISBN |
9780203882184 |
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0203882180 |
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9781281977717 |
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1281977713 |
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