Visceral screens : mediation and matter in horror cinema / Allan Cameron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, Allan, 1973- author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Human body in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Horror cinema grants bodies and images a precarious hold on sense and order: from the zombie's gory disintegration to the shaky visuals of 'found footage' horror, and from the vampire's absent reflection to the spectacle of shattering glass in the Italian giallo. Addressing classic horror movies alongside popular and innovative contemporary works, this book investigates how they have rendered the human form as a media artefact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects, chromatic shifts, glitches and audiovisual fragmentation. Conducting their own anatomies of the screen, cutting into the matter of cinema, horror films revel in the breakdown of frames, patterns and figures, undermining subjectivity and meaning.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Vampire Optics: Projection, Diffusion, Contact

2. Zombie Media: Transmission, Reproduction, Disintegration

3. Corporeal Frames: Found-Footage Horror and the Dislocated Image

4. Aesthetic Incisions: Giallo Cinema and the Matter of the Cut

5. Chromatic Transfusions: Colour, Genre and Embodiment

6. Sensory Disjunctures: From Audiovisual Rupture to Violent Synchrony

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 6, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-1921-6

1-3995-0167-4

1-4744-1920-8

OCLC:

1252422646