This book brings together three areas of study that have received consistent academic attention in recent years – affect theory, horror cinema, and performance studies – to make a significant contribution to the study of moving images of mutilation and audience reception.
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..
This book examines Japanese horror films and their American remakes. Focusing on the textual transformations that occur when texts cross cultural boun..
This book brings together three areas of study that have received consistent academic attention in recent years – affect theory, horror cinema, and pe..
This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and differen..
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..