Visceral Screens : : Mediation and Matter in Horror Cinema / / Allan Cameron.

Investigates how horror films have rendered the human body as a media artifact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects and visual fragmentationDemonstrates how a range of different horror subgenres depict bodily mediation, from the vampire’s association with optical effects to the use of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Vampire Optics: Projection, Diffusion, Contact
  • 2. Zombie Media: Transmission, Reproduction, Disintegration
  • 3. Corporeal Frames: Found-Footage Horror and the Dislocated Image
  • 4. Aesthetic Incisions: Giallo Cinema and the Matter of the Cut
  • 5. Chromatic Transfusions: Colour, Genre and Embodiment
  • 6. Sensory Disjunctures: From Audiovisual Rupture to Violent Synchrony
  • Bibliography
  • Index