David Church

Post-Horror (eBook, PDF)

Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Follows, The Witch, It Comes at Night, Get Out, The Invitation, Hereditary, Midsommar, A Ghost Story, and mother! represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has often earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. Post-Horror is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474475907
• Artikelnr.: 72412991

Autorenporträt

David Church is a film and media scholar specializing in genre studies, taste cultures, and histories of film circulation. He is the author of Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video, and Exploitation Film Fandom (EUP, 2015), Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2016), and Mortal Kombat: Games of Death (University of Michigan Press, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Figures
Acknowledgments
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
Selected Bibliography
Index