Technology, Monstrosity, and Reproduction in Twenty-first Century Horror (Hardcover, New)

Dealing with a variety of twenty-first century horror films, Jackson examines how the technologically produced and reproduced image functions as a site of monstrous birth. These monsters, threatening and ominous as they may be, represent the possibility for a renewed belief in the reality of the world and humanity's place within it. Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this book examines how the current state of horror - its sense of being at an end, its increasing self-awareness, and its concern with the relationship between media and message - reflects these anxieties in Western culture. Horror films bring them to a mass audience and offer ever new figures for the nameless faceless 'antagonist' that plagues us. At the same time, horror provides material with which to build a different understanding of ourselves, its monsters representing ends but also beginnings.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	K. Jackson
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	175
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-36103-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
LSN:	1-137-36103-4
Barcode:	9781137361035

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