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Monstrous Forms
- Moving Image Horror Across Media
Engelsk Paperback
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- Moving Image Horror Across Media
Engelsk Paperback

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It makes us jump. It makes us scream. It haunts our nightmares. So why do we watch horror? Why do we play it? What could possibly be appealing about a genre that tries to terrify us? Why would we subject ourselves to shriek-inducing shocks, or spend dozens of hours watching a television show about grotesque flesh-eating monsters? Monstrous Forms offers a theory of horror that works through the genre across a broad range of contemporary moving-image media: film, television, videogames, YouTube, gifs, streaming, virtual reality. This book analyzes our experience of and engagement with horror by focusing on its form, paying special attention to the common ground, the styles and forms that move between mediums. It looks at the ways that moving-image horror addresses its audiences, the ways that it elicits, or demands, responses from its viewers, players, browsers. Camera movement (or "camera" movement), jump scares, offscreen monsters-horror innovates and perfects styles that directly provoke and stimulate the bodies in front of the screen. Analyzing films including Paranormal Activity, It Follows, and Get Out, videogames including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Layers of Fear, and Until Dawn, and TV shows including The Walking Dead and American Horror Story, Monstrous Forms argues for understanding horror through its sensational address, and dissects the forms that make that address so effective.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780190916244
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0190916249
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Udg. Dato:
7 jan 2020
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
157mm
Højde:
233mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato:
7 jan 2020
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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