Title: Snuff : real death and screen media /
Authors: Kimber, Shaun,; Jackson, Neil, 1968-; Walker, Johnny, 1987-; Watson, Thomas Joseph, 1987-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Death in motion pictures.; Snuff films.; Death in mass media.; Mortality in motion pictures.; Motion pictures United States History and criticism.; PERFORMING ARTS Film & Video History & Criticism.; Death in mass media; Death in motion pictures; Mortality in motion pictures; Motion pictures; Snuff films; United States
Abstract: "Brings together scholars from film and media studies for the definitive academic study of 'real death' on screen - from horror cinema, to pornography, to online 'shock videos'"--
Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword -- David Kerekes (owner of Headpress and author of Killing For Culture)Introduction: The Cultural Mythology of the Snuff Movie, Past and Present -- Neil Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK), Shaun Kimber (Bournemouth University, UK), Johnny Walker (Northumbria University, UK), and Thomas Joseph Watson (Northumbria University, UK)Part I -- The Genesis and Persistence of Snuff: Cross Cultural Contexts and Critical Reactions -- Chapter 1: Unfound Footage and Unfounded Rumours: The Manson Murders and the Persistence of Snuff -- Mark Jones & Gerry Carlin (University of Wolverhampton, UK)Chapter 2: A Murder Mystery in Black and Blue: Astra Video and the Marketing of Snuff in the UK -- Mark McKenna (University of Sunderland, UK)Chapter 3: From Snuff to the South: Transcultural Receptions of the Italian Cannibal Cycle --^ Xavier Mendik (University of Brighton, UK)and Nicolo Gallio (University of Bologna, Italy)Chapter 4: Animal Snuff: The Critical Reception of Weekend and Cannibal Holocaust -- Simon Hobbs (University of Portsmouth, UK)Part II -- Reel to Real? : Myths of Snuff in Production and Performance -- Chapter 5: The Snuff Filmmaker in Realist Horror -- Neil Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK)Chapter 6: Home Made: Faces of Death and Traces of Nostalgia in Recent Amateur Horror -- Johnny Walker (Northumbria University, UK)Chapter 7: It Was All Real, All of It: Reflectionist Horror and the 'Snuffumentary' -- Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)Chapter 8: Why Did They Film It? : Faux Snuff in Contemporary US Cinema -- Shaun Kimber (Bournemouth University, UK) Chpater 9: Cinema as Snuff: Auteurist Meta-snuff and the Murderous Gaze from German Expressionism to Shadow of the Vampire --^ Linda Badley (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)Chapter 10: The Bunny Game: Live Art and Film Genre -- Karolina Grushka (Aberystwyth University, UK)Part III -- Snuff, Affect and Selfhood -- Chapter 11: The Affective Reality of Snuff -- Misha Kavka (University of Auckland, New Zealand)Chapter 12: Affect and the Ethics of Snuff in the Films of the New Extremism -- Tina Kendall (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)Chapter 13: A View to a Kill: Perspectives on Pseudo-Snuff and Self -- Steve Jones (Northumbria University, UK)Part IV -- Snuff in the Twenty-first Century: Circulation, Consumption and Regulation -- Chapter 14: Watching Snuff: Online Reactions to the '3 Guys 1 Hammer' Internet Shock Video -- Iain Robert Smith (Roehampton University of London, UK)Chapter 15: Extreme Pornography and the Wider Politics of Snuff -- Clarissa Smith (University of Sunderland, UK)Chapter 16: The Threat of Snuff -- Julian Petley (Brunel University, UK)BibliographySelect filmographyIndex.