Embodiment and Horror Cinema

✍ Scribed by Larrie Dudenhoeffer (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 298
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Darkness into Light: An Introduction to the Four Tissue Types of Horror Cinema....Pages 1-24
Elbows and Assholes: The Anal Work Ethic in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho....Pages 25-47
Spectral Filtering: Smart Television on the “Silver Screen” in Gore Verbinski’s The Ring....Pages 49-74
The Red Scare: Marxism, Menstruation, and Stuart Rosenberg’s The Amityville Horror....Pages 75-98
Grindhouse Ago-Go: Sounding the Collagenous Commons of Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem....Pages 99-124
Spheres of Orientation: On Why Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm Series Is More Cerebral than One Might Think....Pages 125-152
The Alllusion: Intelligent Machines, Ethical Turns, and Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity....Pages 153-171
Monster Mishmash: Icon, Intertext, and Integument in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre....Pages 173-192
“Little Children, It is the Last Time”: The Ovolutionary Trees of Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist....Pages 193-213
Conclusion....Pages 215-219
Back Matter....Pages 221-293

✦ Subjects

Sociology of the Body; Film History; Cultural and Media Studies, general; Film and Television Studies; Genre; Arts

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