David Church

Post-Horror (eBook, ePUB)

Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explores one of the most prominent and debated trends within the horror genre

• Offers the first in-depth study of one of the twenty-first-century horror genre's most important and divisive developments
• Explores the shared aesthetics, themes, and reception of the post-horror corpus
• Updates existing debates about horror cinema, artistic value, and cultural taste
• Listen to David Church discuss his book on the Full Contact Nerd podcast

Horror's longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Variously dubbed ''elevated horror'' and ''post-horror,'' films such as The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, It Comes at Night, Get Out, The Invitation, Hereditary, Midsommar, A Ghost Story, and mother! represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has often earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. Post-Horror is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema.

Case studies include:

• It Follows
• The Witch
• The Babadook
• Get Out
• Hereditary
• Midsommar
• Goodnight Mommy
• It Comes at Night
• The Invitation
• I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House
• mother!
• A Dark Song
• A Ghost Story

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474475914
• Artikelnr.: 72288019

Autorenporträt

David Church is a film and media scholar specializing in genre studies, taste cultures, and histories of film circulation. He is the author of Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video, and Exploitation Film Fandom (EUP, 2015), Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2016), and Mortal Kombat: Games of Death (University of Michigan Press, 2022).