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05280aam a2200529 i 4500 001 E2709078141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240517010047 008 230705s2023 msua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023030776 020 $a 1496847970 020 $a 9781496847973 020 $a 1496847962 020 $a 9781496847966 035 $a (OCoLC)1378385994 040 $a MsSM/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d MYA $d OCLCO $d CDX $d YDX $d MBB $d GSU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN1995.9.H6 $b D47 2023 082 00 $a 791.43/6164 $2 23/eng/20230803 100 1 $a Diffrient, David Scott, $d 1972- $e author. 245 10 $a Body genre : $b anatomy of the horror film / $c David Scott Diffrient. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c [2023] 300 $a ix, 316 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Horror & monstrosity studies series 520 $a "In this groundbreaking work, author David Scott Diffrient explores largely understudied facets of cinematic horror, from the various odors permeating classic and contemporary films to the wetness, sliminess, and stickiness of these productions, which, he argues, practically scream out for a tactile mode of textural analysis as much as they call for more traditional forms of textual analysis. Dating back to Carol Clover's and Linda Williams's pioneering work on horror cinema, film scholars have long conceptualized this once-disreputable category of cultural production as a "body genre." However, despite the growing recognition that horror serves important biological and social functions in our lives, scholars have only scratched the surface of this genre with regard to its affective, corporeal, and sensorial appeals. Diffrient anatomizes horror films in much the same way that a mad scientist might handle the body, separating and recombining constitutive parts into a new analytical whole. Further, he challenges the tendency of scholars to privilege human over nonhuman beings and calls into question ableist assumptions about the centrality to horror films of sight and sound to the near exclusion of other forms of sense experience. In addition to examining the role that animals-living or dead, real or fake-play in human-centered fictions, this volume asks what it means for audiences to consume motion pictures in which actors, stunt performers, and other creative personnel have put their own bodies and lives at risk for our amusement. Historically grounded and theoretically expansive, Body Genre: Anatomy of the Horror Film moves the study of cinematic horror into previously unchartered waters and breathes life into a subject that, not coincidentally, is intimately connected to breathing as our most cherished dividing line between life and death"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-291) and index. 505 00 $t Preparing to be unprepared : horror film's predictable unpredictability -- $g Index. $t Somatic spectatorship : believing, bleeding, hearing, seeing -- $t Heads will roll, bodies will shake, souls will shatter : horror film's formative stages and physical changes -- $t Corporeality, materiality, mortality : the horror film as "body genre" -- $t Going deep, sticking to the surface : bad deaths and wet bodies -- $t Sliced eyeballs and severed ears : on (not) seeing and (not) hearing horror films -- $g Section two. $t Beyond sight and sound : breathing, smelling, tasting, touching -- $t Dead, but still breathing : the problem of postmortem movement in horror films -- $t Smelling like a slaughterhouse : cinematic olfactics and the stench of horror -- $t Shitty, slimy, smelly, smiley : dirty spaces, funny faces, and the textural pleasures of "laughably bad" texts -- $t Spooky encounters of the humorously disgusting kind : clutching hands and hopping corpses, from Hollywood to Hong Kong -- $g Coda. $t Preparing to be unprepared : horror film's predictable unpredictability -- $g Notes -- $g Bibliography -- $g Index. 650 0 $a Horror films $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Human body in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Senses and sensation in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Horror films $x Production and direction. 650 0 $a Horror films $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Motion picture audiences $x Psychology. 650 0 $a Fear in motion pictures. 650 7 $a Fear in motion pictures $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01903217 650 7 $a Horror films $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00960370 650 7 $a Horror films $x Production and direction $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00960373 650 7 $a Horror films $x Psychological aspects $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00960374 650 7 $a Human body in motion pictures $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01899764 650 7 $a Motion picture audiences $x Psychology $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027120 650 7 $a Senses and sensation in motion pictures $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01904636 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Diffrient, David Scott. $t Body genre $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023 $z 9781496847980 $w (DLC) 2023030777 830 0 $a Horror and monstrosity studies series 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240517012657.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E2709078141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search