Masks in Horror Cinema

Eyes Without Faces

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and myth-making capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors have a direct impact on mask-centric horror cinema: meanings, values and rituals associated with masks evolve and are updated in horror cinema to reflect new contexts, rendering the mask a persistent, meaningful and dynamic aspect of the genre's iconography. This study debates horror cinema's durability as a site for the potency of the mask's broader symbolic power to be constantly re-explored, re-imagined and re-invented as an object of cross-cultural and ritual significance that existed long before the moving image culture of cinema.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-11-15
Mått:138 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:368 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:University of Wales Press
ISBN:9781786834966

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Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is an Australian film critic, speaker and consultant who specialises in horror, cult and exploitation cinema. She is a researcher at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroduction - Why Masks? Ritual, Power and TransformationChapter One: Situating Masks and Horror CinemaPart One: Masks, Horror and Cinema: Towards Codification Chapter Two: Masks and Horror in Literary and Performance Traditions and Early CinemaChapter Three: Masks in Horror Film Before 1970Part Two: Horror Film Masks from 1970Chapter Four: Skin Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation Chapter Five: Blank Masks: Ritual, Power and TransformationChapter Six: Animal Masks: Ritual, Power and TransformationChapter Seven: Repurposed Masks: Ritual, Power and TransformationPart Three: Masks as Transformational Technologies - Moving Forward By Looking BackChapter Eight: Technological Masks: Ritual, Power and TransformationConclusionBibliography