Found Footage Horror Films

Fear and the Appearance of Reality

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies.Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. It examines the diverse prehistory beyond Man Bites Dog (1992) and Cannibal Holocaust (1980), paying attention to the safety films of the 1960s, the snuff-fictions of the 1970s, and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s in particular. It underscores the importance of The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007), and considers YouTube's popular rise in sparking the subgenre's recent renaissance.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-05-08
Mått:150 x 226 x 20 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9780786470778

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Mer om författaren

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is an award-winning Australian film critic, author and academic who has written eight books on cult, horror and exploitation cinema with an emphasis on gender politics. She is a research fellow at RMIT University and an adjunct professor at Deakin University, both in Melbourne, Australia.

Recensioner i media

“excellent addition to the shelves or tablets of any horror scholar”—Dead Reckonings; “his research is quite impressive”—Scarlet the Film Magazine; “definitive”—SFCrowsnest; “a gratifying, thorough and wide-in-scope look”—Flick Attack.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1: Expanding the Prehistory: 1938–1998One. Safety FilmsTwo. Snuff-FictionsThree. TelevisionPart 2: A Critical Chronology: 1998–2009Four. Revisiting The Blair Witch ProjectFive. The Vanishing of the RealSix. Approaching Paranormal ActivityPart 3: Further Discoveries: 2007–2013Seven. Exorcism FilmsEight. The FamilyNine. Nation, History and IdentityConclusion: The Specter of CommercialismNotesBibliographyIndex