Xavier Aldana Reyes

Horror Film and Affect (eBook, ePUB)

Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s - abjection, disgust, cognition, phenomenology, pain studies - to make a significant contribution to the study of fictional moving images of mutilation and the ways in which human bodies are affected by those on the screen on three levels: representationally, emotionally and somatically. Aldana Reyes reads Horror viewership as eminently carnal, and seeks to articulate the need for an alternative model that understands the experience of feeling under corporeal threat as the genre's main descriptor. Using recent, post-millennial examples throughout, the book also offers case studies of key films such as Hostel, [REC], Martyrs or Ginger Snaps, and considers contemporary Horror strands such as found footage or 3D Horror.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317748786
• Artikelnr.: 44777859

Autorenporträt

Xavier Aldana Reyes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Affective-Corporeal Dimensions of Horror 1.Representation: Abjection
Disgust and the (Un)Gendered Body 2. Emotion: Cognition
Threat and Self-Reflection 3. Somatics: Startles
Somatic Empathy and Viewer Alignment Conclusion