Visceral Screens: Mediation and Matter in Horror Cinema

by Allan Cameron

Book Overview

Horror cinema grants bodies and images a precarious hold on sense and order: from the zombie's gory disintegration to the shaky visuals of 'found footage' horror, and from the vampire's absent reflection to the spectacle of shattering glass in the Italian giallo. Addressing classic horror movies alongside popular and innovative contemporary works, Visceral Screens investigates how they have rendered the human form as a media artefact, dramatically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399511246
• ISBN13: 9781399511247
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"