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Digital Horror

Author : Xavier Aldana Reyes,Linnie Blake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857727763

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Digital Horror by Xavier Aldana Reyes,Linnie Blake Pdf

In recent years, the ways in which digital technologies have come to shape our experience of the world has been an immensely popular subject in the horror film genre. Contemporary horror cinema reflects and exploits the anxieties of our age in its increasing use of hand-held techniques and in its motifs of surveillance, found footage (fictional films that appear 'real': comprising discovered video recordings left behind by victims/protagonists) and 'digital haunting' (when ghosts inhabit digital technologies). This book offers an exploration of the digital horror film phenomenon, across different national cultures and historic periods, examining the sub-genres of CCTV horror, technological haunting, snuff films, found footage and torture porn. Digital horror, it demonstrates, is a product of the post 9/11 neo-liberal world view - characterised by security paranoia, constant surveillance and social alienation. Digital horror screens its subjects via the transnational technologies of our age, such as the camcorder and CCTV, and records them in secret footage that may, one day, be found.

New Israeli Horror

Author : Olga Gershenson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781978837867

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New Israeli Horror by Olga Gershenson Pdf

Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The next decade saw a blossoming of the genre by young Israeli filmmakers. New Israeli Horror is the first book to tell their story. Through in-depth analysis, engaging storytelling, and interviews with the filmmakers, Olga Gershenson explores their films from inception to reception. She shows how these films challenge traditional representations of Israel and its people, while also appealing to audiences around the world. Gershenson introduces an innovative conceptual framework of adaptation, which explains how filmmakers adapt global genre tropes to local reality. It illuminates the ways in which Israeli horror borrows and diverges from its international models. New Israeli Horror offers an exciting and original contribution to our understanding of both Israeli cinema and the horror genre. A companion website to this book is available at https://blogs.umass.edu/newisraelihorror/ (https://blogs.umass.edu/newisraelihorror/) Book trailer: https://youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw (https://youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw)

The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature

Author : Kevin Corstorphine,Laura R. Kremmel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319974064

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The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature by Kevin Corstorphine,Laura R. Kremmel Pdf

This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that can be seen in horror, and ways of understanding horror through literary and cultural theory, the text analyses why horror is so compelling, and how we should interpret its presence in literature. Chapters explore historical horror aspects including ancient mythology, medieval writing, drama, chapbooks, the Gothic novel, and literary Modernism and trace themes such as vampires, children and animals in horror, deep dark forests, labyrinths, disability, and imperialism. Considering horror via postmodern theory, evolutionary psychology, postcolonial theory, and New Materialism, this handbook investigates issues of gender and sexuality, race, censorship and morality, environmental studies, and literary versus popular fiction.

Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern

Author : Michele Brittany,Nicholas Diak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476637914

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Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern by Michele Brittany,Nicholas Diak Pdf

From shambling zombies to Gothic ghosts, horror has entertained thrill-seeking readers for centuries. A versatile literary genre, it offers commentary on societal issues, fresh insight into the everyday and moral tales disguised in haunting tropes and grotesque acts, with many stories worthy of critical appraisal. This collection of new essays takes in a range of topics, focusing on historic works such as Ann Radcliffe's Gaston de Blondeville (1826) and modern novels including Max Brooks' World War Z. Other contributions examine weird fiction, Stephen King, Richard Laymon, Indigenous Australian monster mythology and horror in picture books for young children.

Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms

Author : Daniel Adam Daniel
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474456388

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Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms by Daniel Adam Daniel Pdf

Horror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of 'found footage,' to post-cinematic new media forms such as Youtube horror, horror video games and cinematic virtual reality horror. By investigating how these new forms alter the dynamics of spectatorship, this book charts how cinema's affective capacities have shifted in relation to these modifications in the forms of cinematic horror. It applies a rich theoretical synthesis of phenomenological and Deleuzian approaches to a number of case studies, including films like The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity and Creep as well as video games such as Alien: Isolation and new media forms such as Youtube horror and virtual reality horror.

Digital Mythology and the Internet's Monster

Author : Vivian Asimos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350181465

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Digital Mythology and the Internet's Monster by Vivian Asimos Pdf

Exploring a prominent digital mythology, this book proposes a new way of viewing both online narratives and the online communities which tell them. The Slender Man – a monster known for making children disappear and causing violent deaths to the adults who seek to know more about him – is used as an extended case study to explore the role of digital communities, as well as the question of the existence of a broader “digital culture”. Structural anthropological mythic analysis and ethnographic details demonstrate how the Slender Man mythology is structured, and how its everlasting nature in the online communities demonstrates an importance of the mythos.

Monstrous Forms

Author : Adam Hart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190916237

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Monstrous Forms by Adam Hart Pdf

"It makes us jump. It makes us scream. It haunts our nightmares. So why do we watch horror? Why do we play it? What could possibly be appealing about a genre that tries to terrify us? Why would we subject ourselves to shriek-inducing shocks, or spend dozens of hours watching a television show about grotesque flesh-eating monsters? Horror offers us a connection to fears that are otherwise unspeakable, even inconceivable, so why do we seek it out? Monstrous Forms offers a theory of horror that works through the genre across a broad range of contemporary moving-image media: film, television, videogames, YouTube, gifs, streaming, virtual reality. This book analyzes our experience of and engagement with horror by focusing on its form, paying special attention to the common ground, the styles and forms that move between mediums. It looks at the ways that moving-image horror addresses its audiences, the ways that it elicits, or demands, responses from its viewers, players, browsers. Camera movement (or "camera" movement), jump scares, offscreen monsters--horror innovates and perfects styles that directly provoke and stimulate the bodies in front of the screen. Analyzing films including Paranormal Activity, It Follows, and Get Out, videogames including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Layers of Fear, and Until Dawn, and TV shows including The Walking Dead and American Horror Story, Monstrous Forms argues for understanding horror through its sensational address and dissects the forms that make that address so effective. Horror, Film Studies, New Media, Digital Media, Game Studies, Television Studies, Monsters and Monstrosity, Gifs, YouTube, Netflix, Spectatorship"--

Digital Horror Art

Author : Martin McKenna
Publisher : Course Technology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Computer art
ISBN : 1598631810

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Digital Horror Art by Martin McKenna Pdf

If you have ever felt the urge to paint the perfect zombie, or been morbidly compelled to capture the malignancy of a monstrous attack, then this is the book for you. Here, using the latest digital painting and modeling applications, expert horror artists show you exactly how they realized their nightmare visions. Each stage in the process is unveiled, from initial sketches through to fully rendered horror scenes that are more realistic and terrifying than ever before. The book spotlights Adobe Photoshop, Poser, Bryce 3D, Autodesk 3ds max, and Corel Painter, among other software products.

Japanese Horror Culture

Author : Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns,Subashish Bhattacharjee,Ananya Saha
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793647061

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Japanese Horror Culture by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns,Subashish Bhattacharjee,Ananya Saha Pdf

This book investigates the philosophical, socio-cultural, and artistic world of Japanese horror through a varied range of case studies, including video games (Rule of Rose), manga (Uzumaki), and anime (the classic Devilman). Film is represented with well-known works such as Ringu and overlooked filmmakers like Mari Asato.

Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia

Author : Robert Shail,Samantha Holland,Steven Gerrard
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787691070

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Gender and Contemporary Horror in Comics, Games and Transmedia by Robert Shail,Samantha Holland,Steven Gerrard Pdf

Despite the constant changes in contemporary popular media, the horror genre retains its attraction for audiences of all backgrounds. This edited collection explores modern representations of gender in horror and how this factors into the genre's appeal.

Read-Only

Author : Caitlin Marceau
Publisher : Watchmojo
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0995313768

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Read-Only by Caitlin Marceau Pdf

Stop while you can. Seriously. We know you're curious about this book, about the stories tucked away in its pages, but you need to turn back while you still have a chance. This collection can't be unread, and once you learn the truth about what's lurking behind your mobile screens, camera lenses, and newsfeeds, you can never forget. Read-Only: A Collection of Digital Horror, the inaugural edition of WatchMojo Publishing's Fiction Quarterly, features fourteen never before seen short stories that reveal the insidious side of your favourite high-tech toys. We sincerely hope you enjoy the collection in front of you, but remember: read only at your own risk.

Gothic Music

Author : Isabella Van Elferen
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780708325186

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Gothic Music by Isabella Van Elferen Pdf

Gothic Music - The Sounds of the Uncanny traces sonic Gothic through history and genres from the eighteenth-century ghost story through the spooky soundtracks of cinema, television and video games to the dark music of the Goth subculture.

Global Frankenstein

Author : Carol Margaret Davison,Marie Mulvey-Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319781426

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Global Frankenstein by Carol Margaret Davison,Marie Mulvey-Roberts Pdf

Consisting of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international scholars, Global Frankenstein considers the tremendous adaptability and rich afterlives of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, Frankenstein, at its bicentenary, in such fields and disciplines as digital technology, film, theatre, dance, medicine, book illustration, science fiction, comic books, science, and performance art. This ground-breaking, celebratory volume, edited by two established Gothic Studies scholars, reassesses Frankenstein’s global impact for the twenty-first century across a myriad of cultures and nations, from Japan, Mexico, and Turkey, to Britain, Iraq, Europe, and North America. Offering compelling critical dissections of reincarnations of Frankenstein, a generically hybrid novel described by its early reviewers as a “bold,” “bizarre,” and “impious” production by a writer “with no common powers of mind”, this collection interrogates its sustained relevance over two centuries during which it has engaged with such issues as mortality, global capitalism, gender, race, embodiment, neoliberalism, disability, technology, and the role of science.

#31Days: A Collection of Horror Essays, Vol. 1

Author : Robert J Gannon
Publisher : Robert J Gannon
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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#31Days: A Collection of Horror Essays, Vol. 1 by Robert J Gannon Pdf

Imagine immersing yourself in a world of unimaginable horrors for a month. Now imagine doing it every year for 16 years. Horror critic Robert J Gannon does it ever year. The #31Days challenge is to watch and review a different horror property--film, TV series, book, game, play, etc.--every day for the month of October. In this newly revised and expanded collection of essays, Robert J Gannon celebrates the horror genre with a focus on film and television. #31Days features 65 essays and reviews covering everything from Don Coscarelli's "Phantasm" series to the anthology horror show "Masters of Horror." This non-fiction collection follows the spirit of Sketching Details, Robert's long-running entertainment media criticism website. Horror deserves the same level of respect and analysis as any other genre. Robert J Gannon has built a career out of analyzing and sharing a passion for genre fiction--horror, sci-fi, and fantasy--and he's ready to show the world in his debut non-fiction collection.

Horror Culture in the New Millennium

Author : Daniel W. Powell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498587457

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Horror Culture in the New Millennium by Daniel W. Powell Pdf

Horror Culture in the New Millienium surveys horror culture in the first two decades of the new millennium through a series of critical essays on the changing character of dark storytelling. It is a journey both into the complexity of the evolution of communication and the stories we tell about what it means to be human.