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Sleeping With the Lights On - The Unsettling Story of Horror (Hardcover)
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Sleeping With the Lights On - The Unsettling Story of Horror (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R324
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Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still
there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just
saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human
emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why
do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten
ourselves for fun, and yet there are thousands of books, films,
games, and other forms of entertainment designed to do exactly
that. As Darryl Jones shows, the horror genre is huge. Ranging from
vampires, ghosts, and werewolves to mad scientists, Satanists, and
deranged serial killers, the cathartic release of scaring ourselves
has made its appearance in everything from Shakespearean tragedies
to internet memes. Exploring the key tropes of the genre, including
its monsters, its psychological chills, and its love affair with
the macabre, Darryl Jones discusses why horror stories disturb us,
and how society responds to literary and film representations of
the gruesome and taboo. Should the enjoyment of horror be regarded
with suspicion? Are there different levels of the horrific, and
should we distinguish between the commonly reviled carnage of
contemporary torture porn and the culturally acceptable bloodbaths
of ancient Greek tragedies? Analysing the way in which horror
manifests multiple personalities, and has been used throughout
history to articulate the fears and taboos of the current
generation, Jones considers the continuing evolution of the genre
today. As horror is mass marketed to mainstream society in the form
of romantic vampires and blockbuster hits, it also continues to
maintain its former shadowy presence on the edges of
respectability, as banned films and violent internet phenomena push
us to question both our own preconceptions and the terrifying
capacity of human nature.
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