Vampire optics : projection, diffusion, contact -- Zombie media : transmission, reproduction, disintegration -- Corporeal frames : found-footage horror and the dislocated image -- Aesthetic incisions : giallo cinema and the matter of the cut -- Chromatic transfusions : colour, genre and embodiment -- Sensory disjunctures : from audiovisual rupture to violent synchrony.
Summary:
"Horror cinema grants bodies and images a precarious hold on sense and order: from the zombie's gory disintegration to the vampire's absent reflection and from the shaky camerawork of 'found footage' horror to the spectacle of shattering glass in the Italian giallo. Addressing classic horror movies alongside popular and innovative contemporary works, Visceral Screens shows how they have rendered the human form as a type of 'image-body', mediated by optical effects, chromatic shifts, glitches and audiovisual fragmentation. Conducting their own anatomies of the screen, cutting across bodies and media alike, horror films revel in the breakdown of frames, patterns and figures, exposing the seams between matter and meaning."--Back cover.
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