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1 online resource (ix, 270 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Apprehension Engines: Defining a New Wave of Art-Horror Cinema -- 2. "Slow," "Smart," "Indie," "Prestige," "Elevated": Discursive Struggle for Cultural Distinction -- 3. Grief, Mourning, and the Horrors of Familial Inheritance -- 4. Horror by Gaslight: Epistemic Violence and Ambivalent Belonging -- 5. Beautiful, Horrible Desolation: Landscape in Post-Horror Cinema -- 6. Queer Ethics and the Urban Ruin-Porn Landscape: The Horrors of Monogamy in It Follows -- 7. Existential Dread and the Trouble with Transcendence. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Horror films.
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Horror films. |
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Horror films -- History and criticism.
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Film criticism.
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Film criticism. |
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Performing arts.
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Performing arts. |
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Art, genre, and cultural elevation |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Church, David Post-Horror : Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c2021 9781474475884 |
| ISBN |
9781474475907 (electronic book) |
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1474475906 (electronic book) |
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9781474475884 (hardcover) |
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1474475884 (hardcover) |
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