Deleuze and Horror Film

by Anna Powell

Book Overview

The horror film analysed from a Deleuzian perspective. This book argues that dominant psychoanalytic approaches to horror films neglect the aesthetics of horror. Yet cinematic devices such as mise en sc?ne, editing and sound, are central to the viewer's visceral fear and arousal. Using Deleuze's work on art and film, Anna Powell argues that film viewing is a form of 'altered consciousness' and the experience of viewing horror film an 'embodied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748617485
• ISBN13: 9780748617487
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher