Is horror a fundamentally nihilistic genre? Why are those of us who
enjoy horror films so attracted to watching things on screen that
in real life we would almost certainly find repellent? Do monster
movies have a deleterious moral effect on their viewers? In seeking
to answer such questions, as well as a host of related ones, Dark
Thoughts reveals that our fascination with horror cinema, and the
pleasure we take in it, is in the end simply a natural extension of
a philosopher's inclination to wonder. This is a collection of
highly engaging and provocative essays by top scholars in the
increasingly interrelated fields of Philosophy, Film Studies, and
Communication Arts that deal with the epistemology, aesthetics,
ethics, metaphysics, and genre dynamics of horror cinema past and
present. Contributors include Curtis Bowman, Noel Carroll,
Elizabeth Cowie, Angela Curran, Cynthia Freeland, Michael Grant,
Matt Hills, Deborah Knight, George McKnight, Ken Mogg, Aaron Smuts,
Robert C. Solomon, and J.P. Telotte. Over the past several years,
one of the hottest topics in the realm of philosophical aesthetics
has been cinematic horror. The emotional effects it has on
audiences, the mysterious metaphysics of its impossible beings, the
controversial ethics of its violent contents-these are just a few
of the concerns to have drawn the attention of scholars and
students alike. . .not to mention the genre's legions of fans.
Since the publication of Noel Carroll's groundbreaking study, The
Philosophy of Horror; or, Paradoxes of the Heart (1990), and
including most recently Cynthia Freeland's The Naked and the
Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror (2000), a plethora of
articles have been authored by seemingly normal philosophers about
the decidedly abnormal activities of the antagonists of fright
flicks."
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