Snuff
Subtitle: real death and screen media
By: edited by Neil Jackson, Shaun Kimber, Johnny Walker, and Thomas Joseph Watson
Contributors: Jackson, Neil, 1968- editor; Walker, Johnny, 1987- editor; Watson, Thomas Joseph, 1987- editor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781628921120; 9781628921144
Subjects: Motion pictures; Death in mass media; Mortality in motion pictures; Death in motion pictures; History and criticism; Snuff films; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Description: "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'"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Foreword; title: David Kerekes (owner of Headpress and author of Killing For Culture)Introduction: The Cultural Mythology of the Snuff Movie, Past and Present; title: 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; title: Chapter 1: Unfound Footage and Unfounded Rumours: The Manson Murders and the Persistence of Snuff; title: 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; title: Mark McKenna (University of Sunderland, UK)Chapter 3: From Snuff to the South: Transcultural Receptions of the Italian Cannibal Cycle; title: 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; title: Simon Hobbs (University of Portsmouth, UK)Part II - Reel to Real? : Myths of Snuff in Production and Performance; title: Chapter 5: The Snuff Filmmaker in Realist Horror; title: Neil Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK)Chapter 6: Home Made: Faces of Death and Traces of Nostalgia in Recent Amateur Horror; title: Johnny Walker (Northumbria University, UK)Chapter 7: It Was All Real, All of It: Reflectionist Horror and the 'Snuffumentary'; title: Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)Chapter 8: Why Did They Film It? : Faux Snuff in Contemporary US Cinema; title: 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; title: Linda Badley (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)Chapter 10: The Bunny Game: Live Art and Film Genre; title: Karolina Grushka (Aberystwyth University, UK)Part III - Snuff, Affect and Selfhood; title: Chapter 11: The Affective Reality of Snuff; title: Misha Kavka (University of Auckland, New Zealand)Chapter 12: Affect and the Ethics of Snuff in the Films of the New Extremism; title: Tina Kendall (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)Chapter 13: A View to a Kill: Perspectives on Pseudo-Snuff and Self; title: Steve Jones (Northumbria University, UK)Part IV - Snuff in the Twenty-first Century: Circulation, Consumption and Regulation; title: Chapter 14: Watching Snuff: Online Reactions to the '3 Guys 1 Hammer' Internet Shock Video; title: Iain Robert Smith (Roehampton University of London, UK)Chapter 15: Extreme Pornography and the Wider Politics of Snuff; title: Clarissa Smith (University of Sunderland, UK)Chapter 16: The Threat of Snuff; title: Julian Petley (Brunel University, UK)BibliographySelect filmographyIndex.