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1 online resource |
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Cover; Why Horror Seduces; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Horror, Fear, and Evolution; Part 1: An Evolutionary Theory of Horror; 1. Sizing Up the Beast: What Horror Is, and How It Is Studied; 2. How Horror Works, I: The Evolution and Stimulation of Negative Emotion; 3. How Horror Works, II: Spooky Monsters, Scary Scenarios, and Terrified Characters; 4. Fear for Your Life: The Appeals, Functions, and Effects of Horror; Part 2: Evolutionary Perspectives on American Horror; 5. Monsters Everywhere: A Very Brief Overview of American Horror |
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6. Vampire Apocalypse: I Am Legend (1954)7. Trust No One: Rosemary's Baby (1967); 8. Fight the Dead, Fear the Living: Night of the Living Dead (1968); 9. Never Go Swimming Again: Jaws (1975); 10. Haunted Houses, Haunted Minds: The Shining (1977); 11. Hack n' Slash: Halloween (1978); 12. Lost and Hunted in Bad Woods: The Blair Witch Project (1999); Part 3: Future Evolutions in Horror Entertainment and Horror Research; 13. The Future of Horror; References; Index |
| Summary |
Why do humans feel the need to scream at horror films? In Why Horror Seduces, author Matthias Clasen looks to evolutionary social science to show how the horror genre is a product of human nature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Horror tales, American -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American literature -- Psychological aspects
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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American literature -- Psychological aspects
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Horror tales, American
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190666545 |
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0190666544 |
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9780190666521 |
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0190666528 |
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