Post-horror : art, genre, and cultural elevation / David Church.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Church, David, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 270 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'Post-Horror' is a full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 26, 2021).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-7591-4

1-4744-9525-7

1-4744-7590-6

OCLC:

1312725894