Embodiment and Horror Cinema [electronic resource] /
Dudenhoeffer, Larrie.author.
Using the four tissue types (connective, epithelial, nervous, and muscular), Dudenhoeffer expands and complicates the subgenre of "body horror." Changing the emphasis from the contents of the film to the "organicity" of its visual and affective registers, he addresses the application of psychoanalysis, phenomenology, object-ontology, and cyborgism.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; 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 Films Another Chance; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Using the four tissue types (connective, epithelial, nervous, and muscular), Dudenhoeffer expands and complicates the subgenre of "body horror." Changing the emphasis from the contents of the film to the "organicity" of its visual and affective registers, he addresses the application of psychoanalysis, phenomenology, object-ontology, and cyborgism.
Human body-Social aspects.
Motion pictures-History.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Motion pictures and television.
Film genres.
Arts.
Sociology of the Body.
Film History.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Screen Studies.
Genre.
Arts.