Post-Horror : : Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation / / David Church.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Church, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations 1 B/W tables

Explores one of the most prominent and debated trends within the horror genreOffers the first in-depth study of one of the twenty-first-century horror genre’s most important and divisive developmentsExplores the shared aesthetics, themes, and reception of the post-horror corpusUpdates existing debates about horror cinema, artistic value, and cultural tasteListen to David Church discuss his book on the Full Contact Nerd podcastHorror’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.Case studies include:It FollowsThe WitchThe BabadookGet OutHereditaryMidsommarGoodnight MommyIt Comes at NightThe InvitationI Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the Housemother!A Dark SongA Ghost Story"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Selected Bibliography -- Index