Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation
David Church
Explores one of the most prominent and debated trends within the horror genre
Case studies include:
- Offers the first in-depth study of one of the twenty-first-century horror genre’s most important and divisive developments
- Explores the shared aesthetics, themes, and reception of the post-horror corpus
- Updates existing debates about horror cinema, artistic value, and cultural taste
- Listen to David Church discuss his book on the Full Contact Nerd podcast
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.
Case studies include:
- It Follows
- The Witch
- The Babadook
- Get Out
- Hereditary
- Midsommar
- Goodnight Mommy
- It Comes at Night
- The Invitation
- I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House
- mother!
- A Dark Song
- A Ghost Story
Yıl:
2022
Yayımcı:
Edinburgh University Press
Dil:
english
Sayfalar:
280
ISBN 10:
1474475906
ISBN 13:
9781474475907
Dosya:
PDF, 4.79 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2022