Spectatorship, embodiment and physicality in the contemporary mutilation film
By: Laura Wilson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137444370
Subjects: Motion picture audiences; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Splatter films; History and criticism; Violence in motion pictures; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society
Description: "Focusing on the representation of mutilation on the screen and the physical responses this evokes - what the author defines as 'physical spectatorship' - this book is organised around the study of a series of dynamic engagements that reconfigure the film-viewer relationship; these include: corporeal mimicry and the cinematic visualisations of mutilation; generalised anxiety and experimental use of sound; and the nausea generated by audio-visual techniques that both signify and locate the filmic gut in the viewer's body.  Combining close textual analyses with theoretical approaches, and traversing a number of national cinemas, Wilson draws upon psychoanalytic, phenomenological and feminist theories of film and spectatorship to explore specific aspects of this often overlooked group of films, aspects such as the assault narrative sequence, the use of extreme frequencies, and haptic sounds and images"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of FiguresIntroduction 1. Embodied Voyeurism 2. Mutilation as Spectacle 3. Representing the Unrepresentable: Self-Harm as Affect 4. Extreme Frequencies 5. The Gut Conclusion Bibliography Filmography Index.