Dark thoughts
Subtitle: philosophic reflections on cinematic horror
By: edited by Steven Jay Schneider, Daniel Shaw.
Contributors: Schneider, Steven Jay, 1974-; Shaw, Daniel, 1951-
Publisher: Scarecrow Press; The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Horror films -- History and criticism.
Description: "This collection of highly engaging and provocative essays by top scholars in the increasingly related fields of philosophy, film studies, and communication arts deals with the epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and genre dynamics of horror cinema past and present."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Horror, tragedy and pleasure: the general theory of horrific appeal / Nol Carroll; title: The mastery of Hannibal Lecter / Daniel Shaw; title: The lived nightmare: trauma, anxiety, and the ethical aesthetics of horror / Elizabeth Cowie; title: Aristotelian reflections on horror and tragedy in an American werewolf in London and the sixth sense / Angela Curran; title: Horror's philosophic auteurs: Heidegger, the uncanny, and Jacques Tourneur's horror films / Curtis Bowman; title: Hitchcock made only one horror film: matters of time, space, causality, and the Schopenhauerian will / Ken Mogg; title: What you can't see can hurt you: of invisible and hollow men / J.P. Telotte; title: Philosophical (horror) investigations: on the question of the horror film / Michael Grant; title: An event-based definition of art-horror / Matt Hills; title: Haunting the house from within: disbelief, mitigation, and spatial experience / Aaron Smuts; title: Murder as art/the art of murder: aestheticizing violence in modern cinematic horror / Steven Jay Schneider; title: Horror and reality: the slasher's blood lust / Cynthia A. Freeland; title: American psycho: horror, satire, aesthetics, and identification / Deborah Knight and George McKnight; title: Real horror / Robert C. Solomon (with reply from Daniel Shaw).