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Body Genre - Anatomy of the Horror Film
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Body Genre - Anatomy of the Horror Film
Series: Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series
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In this groundbreaking work, author David Scott Diffrient explores
largely understudied facets of cinematic horror, from the various
odors permeating classic and contemporary films to the wetness,
sliminess, and stickiness of these productions, which, he argues,
practically scream out for a tactile mode of textural analysis as
much as they call for more traditional forms of textual analysis.
Dating back to Carol Clover’s and Linda Williams’s pioneering
work on horror cinema, film scholars have long conceptualized this
once-disreputable category of cultural production as a "body
genre." However, despite the growing recognition that horror serves
important biological and social functions in our lives, scholars
have only scratched the surface of this genre with regard to its
affective, corporeal, and sensorial appeals. Diffrient anatomizes
horror films in much the same way that a mad scientist might handle
the body, separating and recombining constitutive parts into a new
analytical whole. Further, he challenges the tendency of scholars
to privilege human over nonhuman beings and calls into question
ableist assumptions about the centrality to horror films of sight
and sound to the near exclusion of other forms of sense experience.
In addition to examining the role that animals—living or dead,
real or fake—play in human-centered fictions, this volume asks
what it means for audiences to consume motion pictures in which
actors, stunt performers, and other creative personnel have put
their own bodies and lives at risk for our amusement. Historically
grounded and theoretically expansive, Body Genre: Anatomy of the
Horror Film moves the study of cinematic horror into previously
unchartered waters and breathes life into a subject that, not
coincidentally, is intimately connected to breathing as our most
cherished dividing line between life and death.
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Imprint: |
University Press Of Mississippi
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
David Scott Diffrient
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
277 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4968-4797-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-4968-4797-0 |
Barcode: |
9781496847973 |
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