Monstrous Forms: Moving Image Horror Across Media

by Adam C. Hart

Book Overview

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? Monstrous Forms offers a theory of horror that works through the genre across a broad range of contemporary moving-image...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190916249
• ISBN13: 9780190916244
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"