Blood on the Lens : : Trauma and Anxiety in American Found Footage Horror Cinema / / Shellie McMurdo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
• VerfasserIn: McMurdo, Shellie,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.) :; 18 B/W illustrations 18 B&W images
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgements --; 1 Found footage horror: a cinema of absences --; Part I --; 2 Found footage horror and documentary conventions --; 3 Found footage horror and historical trauma --; 4 Found footage horror and televisual actualities --; Part II --; 5 Found footage horror, 9/11 and a culture of fear --; 6 ‘They’re going to let us die’: trust in found footage horror --; 7 ‘What if they’re not even listening?’: truth in found footage horror --; Part III --; 8 Death in digital: found footage horror and the internet --; 9 ‘You have committed a fatal error’: social media horrors --; 10 The footage yet to be found --; Bibliography --; Found footage filmography and other media --; Filmography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474482103; 9783110992809; 9783110992816; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110797640
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474482103
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Shellie McMurdo.

Connects the found footage horror subgenre to significant traumatic events and societal anxieties in American history and contemporary AmericaExplores how the most visually recognisable post-millennial subgenre engages with cultural traumaDemonstrates how found footage horror continues to offer new thematic and aesthetic ways of confronting and working through trauma and anxietyAnalyses a range of key films (both mainstream and lesser known titles), and key movements in the subgenre (for example the movement from documentary conventions to social media aesthetics)Identifies how significant cultural events have impacted on, and been integrated within, found footage horrorExamines the subgenre in a post-cinematic age, where cinema is no longer the dominant cultural spectacle it once wasThrough an identification of key case studies both mainstream and lesser known, Blood on the Lens: Trauma and Anxiety in American Found Footage Horror Cinema argues that found footage horror cinema is uniquely able to confront a pervasive contemporary culture of anxiety and trauma. This book traces how and why the subgenre has continued to endure, even as we enter a post-cinematic landscape.Through three distinct sections, Blood on the Lens proposes key observations on the found footage horror subgenre. She questions how these films engage with national trauma, the common themes of this body of films and how they relate to wider anxieties. In addition, McMurdo investigates the effect various cultural movements have had on the aesthetics of found footage horror, how these films position their spectator and encourage an active viewing mode, and how the line between fiction and fact is blurred both paratextually and within the films themselves.