Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index.
Contents:
Darkness into Light: An Introduction to the Four Tissue Types of Horror Cinema -- 1. Elbows and Assholes: The Anal Work Ethic in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho -- 2. Spectral Filtering: Smart Television on the "Silver Screen" in Gore Verbinski's The Ring -- 3. The Red Scare: Marxism, Menstruation, and Stuart Rosenberg's The Amityville Horror -- 4. Grindhouse Ago-Go: Sounding the Collagenous Commons of Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem -- 5. Spheres of Orientation: On Why Don Coscarelli's Phantasm Series Is More Cerebral than One Might Think -- 6. The AIllusion: Intelligent Machines, Ethical Turns, and Oren Peli's Paranormal Activity -- 7. Monster Mishmash: Icon, Intertext, and Integument in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre -- 8. "Little children, it is the last time": The Ovolutionary Trees of Lars Von Trier's Antichrist -- Conclusion: Post-Op: Giving Horror Film Another Chance.
Summary:
"Embodiment and Horror Cinema seeks to altogether redefine the concept of "body horror." Taking the four tissue types as its frame of reference, it works to shift emphasis from the contents of the horror film, from its monsters and violence, to the "organicity" of its audiovisual, narrative, and affective registers. The films that each of its eight chapters covers will serve as tutor texts useful to the reader in thinking through the shock, discomfort, and other affective charges that come about when certain organs, fluids, or cell networks assume more of an emphasis than the other elements up there on the screen"-- Provided by publisher.
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