Body genre : anatomy of the horror film /
"In this groundbreaking work, author David Scott Diffrient explores largely understudied facets of cinematic horror, from the various odors permeating classic and contemporary films to the wetness, sliminess, and stickiness of these productions, which, he argues, practically scream out for a ta...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson, Mississippi :
University Press of Mississippi,
2023.
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| Series: | Horror and monstrosity studies series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Books, bodies, beliefs: Introducing a genre that needs no Introduction
- 2. Heads will roll, bodies will shake, souls will shatter: Horror film's formative stages and physical changes
- 3. Corporeality, materiality, mortality: The horror film as "body genre"
- 4. Going deep, sticking to the surface: Bad deaths and wet bodies
- 5. Sliced eyeballs and severed ears: On (not) seeing and (not) hearing horror films
- 6. Dead, but still breathing: The problem of postmortem movement in horror films
- 7. Smelling like a slaughterhouse: Cinematic olfactics and the stench of horror
- 8. Shitty, slimy, smelly, smiley: dirty spaces, funny faces, and the textural pleasures of "laughably bad" texts
- 9. Spooky encounters of the humorously disgusting kind: Clutching hands and hopping corpses, from Hollywood to Hong Kong
- Coda. Preparing to be unprepared: Horror film's predictable unpredictability
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
