This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and different media forms, illustrating the ways that horror can be theorized through the circulation, reception, and production of transnational media texts.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2013-11-11
Language: English
Number of Pages: 266
Edition: 1
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Why can fear be pleasurable? Why do we sometimes enjoy an emotion we otherwise desperately wish to avoid? And why are the movies the predominant place..
The horror genre has proved to be one of the most consistently popular and the most disreputable of all the mainstream film genres. Since the early 19..
This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and differen..
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This book brings together three areas of study that have received consistent academic attention in recent years – affect theory, horror cinema, and pe..
Why can fear be pleasurable? Why do we sometimes enjoy an emotion we otherwise desperately wish to avoid? And why are the movies the predominant place..
The horror genre has proved to be one of the most consistently popular and the most disreputable of all the mainstream film genres. Since the early 19..