Post-horror : art, genre, and cultural elevation /
Horror's longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Variously dubbed 'elevated horror' and 'post-horror, ' films such as The Babadook, It Follo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Edinburgh scholarship online
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Apprehension Engines: Defining a New Wave of Art-Horror Cinema
- 2. "Slow," "Smart," "Indie," "Prestige," "Elevated": Discursive Struggle for Cultural Distinction
- 3. Grief, Mourning, and the Horrors of Familial Inheritance
- 4. Horror by Gaslight: Epistemic Violence and Ambivalent Belonging
- 5. Beautiful, Horrible Desolation: Landscape in Post-Horror Cinema
- 6. Queer Ethics and the Urban Ruin-Porn Landscape: The Horrors of Monogamy in It Follows
- 7. Existential Dread and the Trouble with Transcendence.
