Snuff

Neil Jackson teaches Film at the University of Lincoln, UK, and has published on popular cinema in various books and journals. He is currently preparing a critical study of Hollywood's representation of the adult film industry. Shaun Kimber is Senior Lecturer in Media Theory at Bournemouth University, UK. He is the author of Controversies: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (2011) and is currently working on the co-authored book Writing & Selling Horror Screenplays. Johnny Walker is Lecturer in Media at Northumbria University, UK. He is the author of Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society (2015) and founding co-editor of the Global Exploitation Cinemas book series (Bloomsbury). Thomas Joseph Watson lectures in Media Studies at Teesside University, UK. His research investigates the role of film form in the depiction of violence in contemporary audio-visual media. He has published on pornography, documentary film, and experimental video-art.

There is much to be said for this timely collection of essays ... It provides a rich archive of sources for interested readers; it is diverse in range but coherent in remit, and it addresses the topic broadly enough to appeal to many different scholars ... [This] is a serious intervention deliberately situated at the intersection of debates about violence in society and violence in representation, which has long been a somewhat sensationalized space; it is an original and stimulating contribution to an otherwise undersubscribed area of intellectual interest. This book will be valuable to anyone interested in the ongoing debate about visuality, violence and death.

• List of FiguresForeword: A Culture of CHangeDavid Kerekes (Owner of Headpress and author of Killing For Culture)Acknowledgements Introduction: Shot, Cut and SlaughteredNeil Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK)Part I – The Changing Meaning of "Snuff" Chapter 1: The Way to Digital DeathJulian Petley (Brunel University, UK)Chapter 2: The Affective Reality of SnuffMisha Kavka (University of Auckland, New Zealand)Chapter 3: Animal SnuffSimon Hobbs (University of Portsmouth, UK)Chapter 4: Breathing New Life into Old Fears: Extreme Pornogrpahy and the Wider Politics of SnuffClarissa Smith (University of Sunderland, UK)Chapter 5: From Snuff to the South: The Global Reception of Cannibal HolocaustNicolo Gallio (University of Bologna, Italy) and Xavier Mendik (University of Brighton, UK)Chapter 6: A Murder Mystery in Black and Blue: The Marketing, Distribution and Cult Mythology of Snuff in the UKMark McKenna (University of Sunderland, UK)Chapter 7: Traces of Snuff: Black Markets, Fan Subcultures and Underground Horror in the 90sJohnny Walker (Northumbria University, UK)Chapter 8: SNuff 2.0: Real Death Goes HD ReadyMark Astley (Independent Scholar, UK)Part II – "Snuff" Across Film and TelevisionChapter 9: Unfound Footage and Unfounded Rumours: The Manson Family Murders and the Persistence of SnuffMark Jones & Gerry Carlin (University of Wolverhampton, UK)Chapter 10: Wild Eyes, Dead Ladies: The Snuff Filmmaker in Realist HorrorNeil Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK)Chapter 11: The Mediation of Death in Fictional Snuff: Reflexivity, Viewer Interpellation and Ethical ImplicationXavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)Chatper 12: "Why Would you Film It?" Snuff, Sinister and Contemporary US Horror CinemaShaun Kimber (Bournemouth University, UK) Chapter 13: Cinema as Snuff: From Pre-Cinema to Shadow of the VampireLinda Badley (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)Chapter 14: AffectTina Kendall (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)Chapter 15: A View to Kill: Perspectives on Faux-Snuff and SelfSteve Jones (Northumbria University, UK)Select BibliographyContributors