Why is the horror genre in film and literature so perennially
popular? Why do we enjoy vicarious fear? The parallel fields of
sociobiology and evolutionary psychology offer an approach to
unraveling this conundrum. A new generation of Darwinists expands
on the hypothesis that evolution created our physical forms. They
posit that behaviors from our primal ancestors that favored
survival and adaptation through natural selection would have been
incorporated into our genetic heritage. Echoes from their
adaptation would at least influence, but not control, our actions,
decisions and thoughts today. Evolutionary critics believe that
whispers of adaptive behavior influence our taste in film and
literature to create enduring narratives. Primal Dreams, Primal
Screams explores the impact of six primal narratives that recur in
the horror genre to create its enduring appeal: territoriality,
tribalism, fear of genetic assimilation, mating rituals, fear of
the predator and distrust or fear of the Other. Evolutionary
criticism tells us much about our tastes in the arts. But an
understanding of how primal narratives influence our response to
films or novels that enact them also leads us to a new
understanding of human nature and how the adaptive strategies of
our ancestors can create dysfunction in a modern setting.
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