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Why Horror Seduces (Paperback)
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Why Horror Seduces (Paperback)
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From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to
murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the
American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have
moved on screens. But why do they captive us so? What is the drive
to be frightened, and why is it so perennially popular? Why Horror
Seduces addresses these questions through evolutionary social
sciences. Explaining the functional seduction of horror
entertainment, this book draws on cutting-edge findings in the
evolutionary social sciences, showing how the horror genre is a
product of human nature. Integrating the study of horror with the
sciences of human nature, the book claims that horror entertainment
works by targeting humans' adaptive tendency to find pleasure in
make-believe, allowing a high intensity experience within a safe
context. Through analyses of well-known and popular modern American
works of horror-Rosemary's Baby; The Shining; I Am Legend; Jaws;
and several others-author Mathias Clasen illustrates how these
works target evolved cognitive and emotional mechanisms; we are
attracted to horrifying entertainment because we have an adaptive
tendency to find pleasure in make-believe that allows us to
experience negative emotions at high levels of intensity within a
safe context. Organized into three parts identifying fictional
works by evolutionary mode - the evolution of horror; evolutionary
interpretations of horror; the future of horror - Why Horror
Seduces succinctly explores the cognitive processes behind
spectators' need to scream.
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