Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership

by Xavier Aldana Reyes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415749824
• ISBN13: 9780415749824
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"