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Found Footage Horror Films

Author : Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476613215

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Found Footage Horror Films by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Pdf

As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror’s amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror’s dark and tantalizing fantasies. Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre’s stylistic, historical and thematic development. It examines the diverse prehistory beyond Man Bites Dog (1992) and Cannibal Holocaust (1980), paying attention to the safety films of the 1960s, the snuff-fictions of the 1970s, and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s in particular. It underscores the importance of The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007), and considers YouTube’s popular rise in sparking the subgenre’s recent renaissance.

Found Footage Horror Films

Author : Peter Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429758133

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This book adopts a cognitive theoretical framework in order to address the mental processes that are elicited and triggered by found footage horror films. Through analysis of key films, the book explores the effects that the diegetic camera technique used in such films can have on the cognition of viewers. It further examines the way in which mediated realism is constructed in the films in order to attempt to make audiences either (mis)read the footage as non-fiction, or more commonly to imagine that the footage is non-fiction. Films studied include The Blair Witch Project, Rec, Paranormal Activity, Exhibit A, Cloverfield, Man Bites Dog, The Last Horror Movie, Noroi: The Curse, Autohead and Zero Day This book will be of key interest to Film Studies scholars with research interests in horror and genre studies, cognitive studies of the moving image, and those with interests in narration, realism and mimesis. It is an essential read for students undertaking courses with a focus on film theory, particularly those interested specifically in horror films and cognitive film theory.

Found Footage Horror Films

Author : Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786470778

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Found Footage Horror Films by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Pdf

As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies. Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. It examines the diverse prehistory beyond Man Bites Dog (1992) and Cannibal Holocaust (1980), paying attention to the safety films of the 1960s, the snuff-fictions of the 1970s, and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s in particular. It underscores the importance of The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007), and considers YouTube's popular rise in sparking the subgenre's recent renaissance.

Found Footage Films (2020)

Author : Steve Hutchison
Publisher : Tales of Terror
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781778872556

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Found Footage Films (2020) by Steve Hutchison Pdf

Included in this book are 50 reviews of horror and horror-adjacent found footage films. Found footage is a film subgenre in which all or a substantial part of the work is presented as if it were discovered film or video recordings. Each book in the Subgenres of Terror 2020 collection contains a ranked thematic watchlist.

Digital Horror

Author : Xavier Aldana Reyes,Linnie Blake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 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.

How To Write A Horror Movie

Author : Neal Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429619359

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How To Write A Horror Movie by Neal Bell Pdf

How to Write a Horror Movie is a close look at an always-popular (but often disrespected) genre. It focuses on the screenplay and acts as a guide to bringing scary ideas to cinematic life using examples from great (and some not-so-great) horror movies. Author Neal Bell examines how the basic tools of the scriptwriter’s trade - including structure, dialogue, humor, mood, characters, and pace – can work together to embody personal fears that will resonate strongly on screen. Screenplay examples include classic works such as 1943’s I Walked With A Zombie and recent terrifying films that have given the genre renewed attention like writer/director Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed and financially successful Get Out. Since fear is universal, the book considers films from around the world including the ‘found-footage’ [REC] from Spain (2007), the Swedish vampire movie, Let The Right One In (2008) and the Persian-language film Under The Shadow (2016). The book provides insights into the economics of horror-movie making, and the possible future of this versatile genre. It is the ideal text for screenwriting students exploring genre and horror, and aspiring scriptwriters who have an interest in horror screenplays.

Horror Films FAQ

Author : John Kenneth Muir
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781480366824

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Horror Films FAQ by John Kenneth Muir Pdf

HORROR FILMS FAQ:ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT SLASHERS VAMPIRES ZOMBIES ALIENS AND

Last Days

Author : Adam Nevill
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250018175

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Last Days by Adam Nevill Pdf

Last Days (winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel of the Year) by Adam Nevill is a Blair Witch style novel in which a documentary film-maker undertakes the investigation of a dangerous cult—with creepy consequences When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult known as the Temple of the Last Days, it appears his prayers have been answered. The cult became a worldwide phenomenon in 1975 when there was a massacre including the death of its infamous leader, Sister Katherine. Kyle's brief is to explore the paranormal myths surrounding an organization that became a testament to paranoia, murderous rage, and occult rituals. The shoot's locations take him to the cult's first temple in London, an abandoned farm in France, and a derelict copper mine in the Arizonan desert where The Temple of the Last Days met its bloody end. But when he interviews those involved in the case, those who haven't broken silence in decades, a series of uncanny events plague the shoots. Troubling out-of-body experiences, nocturnal visitations, the sudden demise of their interviewees and the discovery of ghastly artifacts in their room make Kyle question what exactly it is the cult managed to awaken – and what is its interest in him?

Subgenres of Terror, 2nd Edition: Found Footage Films

Author : Steve Hutchison
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 109056399X

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Subgenres of Terror, 2nd Edition: Found Footage Films by Steve Hutchison Pdf

Included in this book are 64 reviews of horror and horror-adjacent found footage films. Found footage is a film subgenre in which all or a substantial part of the work is presented as if it were discovered film or video recordings. Each book in the second edition of the Subgenres of Terror collection contains a thematic watchlist in which movies are sorted in order of preference.

Mockumentary Comedy

Author : Richard Wallace
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319778488

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Mockumentary Comedy by Richard Wallace Pdf

This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television programmes make visible—through comedy—the performances that underpin straight documentaries and many of our public figures. Mockumentary Comedy focuses on the rock star and the politician, two figures that regularly feature as mockumentary subjects. These public figures are explored through detailed textual analyses of a range of film and television comedies, including A Hard Day’s Night, This is Spinal Tap, The Thick of It, Veep and the works of Christopher Guest and Alison Jackson. This book broadens the scope of existing mockumentary scholarship by taking comedy seriously in a sustained way for the first time. It ultimately argues that the comedic performances—by performers and of documentary conventions—are central to the form’s critical significance and popular appeal.

Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms

Author : Daniel Adam Daniel
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 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.

POV Horror

Author : Duncan Hubber
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476650944

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Drawing together strands of film theory and psychology, this book offers a fresh assessment of the found footage horror subgenre. It reconceptualizes landmark films--including The Blair Witch Project (1999), Cloverfield (2008), Paranormal Activity (2009), and Man Bites Dog (1992)--as depictions of the lived experience and social legacy of psychological trauma. The author demonstrates how the frantic cinematography and ambiguous formulation of the monster evokes the shocked and disoriented cognition of the traumatized mind. Moreover, the frightening effect of trauma on society is shown to be a recurring theme across the subgenre. Close textual analysis is given to a wide range of films over several decades, including titles that have yet to receive any academic attention. Divided into four distinct sections, the book examines how found footage horror films represent the effects of historical and contemporary traumatic events on Western societies, the vicarious spread of traumatic experiences via mass media, the sublimation of domestic abuse into haunted houses, and the viewer's identification with the monster as an embodiment of perpetrator trauma.

Horror Film and Affect

Author : Xavier Aldana Reyes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317748793

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Horror Film and Affect by Xavier Aldana Reyes Pdf

This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s – abjection, disgust, cognition, phenomenology, pain studies – to make a significant contribution to the study of fictional moving images of mutilation and the ways in which human bodies are affected by those on the screen on three levels: representationally, emotionally and somatically. Aldana Reyes reads Horror viewership as eminently carnal, and seeks to articulate the need for an alternative model that understands the experience of feeling under corporeal threat as the genre’s main descriptor. Using recent, post-millennial examples throughout, the book also offers case studies of key films such as Hostel, [REC], Martyrs or Ginger Snaps, and considers contemporary Horror strands such as found footage or 3D Horror.

The Silly Ghost

Author : Alizeh Jaffrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0975367307

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The Silly Ghost by Alizeh Jaffrey Pdf

The Silly Ghost is a children's story book. The story aimed at entertaining and educating little children about perceived fears of ghost. The Silly Ghost is an amusing interaction of a child and a ghost named Frederick. It is pretty scary for a kid to meet a ghost, but what is it like for a ghost to meet a kid?

Nightmare Fuel

Author : Nina Nesseth
Publisher : Tor Nightfire
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781250765222

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Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth Pdf

Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth is a pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under our skin, and why we keep coming back for more. Do you like scary movies? Have you ever wondered why? Nina Nesseth knows what scares you. She also knows why. In Nightmare Fuel, Nesseth explores the strange and often unexpected science of fear through the lenses of psychology and physiology. How do horror films get under our skin? What about them keeps us up at night, even days later? And why do we keep coming back for more? Horror films promise an experience: fear. From monsters that hide in plain sight to tension-building scores, every aspect of a horror film is crafted to make your skin crawl. But how exactly do filmmakers pull this off? The truth is, there’s more to it than just loud noises and creepy images. With the affection of a true horror fan and the critical analysis of a scientist, Nesseth explains how audiences engage horror with both their brains and bodies, and teases apart the elements that make horror films tick. Nightmare Fuel covers everything from jump scares to creature features, serial killers to the undead, and the fears that stick around to those that fade over time. With in-depth discussions and spotlight features of some of horror’s most popular films—from classics like The Exorcist to modern hits like Hereditary—and interviews with directors, film editors, composers, and horror academics, Nightmare Fuel is a deep dive into the science of fear, a celebration of the genre, and a survival guide for going to bed after the credits roll. “An invaluable resource, a history of the horror genre, a love letter to the scary movie—it belongs on any horror reader’s bookshelf.” —Lisa Kröger, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Monster, She Wrote At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.