Monstrous Forms
Moving Image Horror Across Media
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 January 2020
- ISBN 9780190916237
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 160x243x31 mm
- Weight 850 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 27 illustrations 77
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Short description:
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 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 media: film, television, videogames, YouTube, gifs, streaming, virtual reality.
MoreLong description:
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 media: film, television, videogames, YouTube, gifs, streaming, virtual reality. This book analyzes our experience of and engagement with horror by focusing on its form, paying special attention to the common ground, the styles and forms that move between mediums. It looks at the ways that moving-image horror addresses its audiences, the ways that it elicits, or demands, responses from its viewers, players, browsers. Camera movement (or "camera" movement), jump scares, offscreen monsters-horror innovates and perfects styles that directly provoke and stimulate the bodies in front of the screen. Analyzing films including Paranormal Activity, It Follows, and Get Out, videogames including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Layers of Fear, and Until Dawn, and TV shows including The Walking Dead and American Horror Story, Monstrous Forms argues for understanding horror through its sensational address, and dissects the forms that make that address so effective.
The breadth and depth of the book as it is recommend it to scholars in the field looking to delve deeper into internet culture and to engage with what Hart terms the "sensational address" of horror, and to college instructors to assign as an accessible introduction to the horror genre in media studies.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Haunted Screens
Part 1: The Sensational Address
Chapter 1: Shocks to the System: How We Watch/Play/Browse Horror
Chapter 2: I'M SCREEEEEEEEAMING!!!!:: The Lowly Art of the Jump Scare
Chapter 3: The Blackest Eyes... The Devil's Eyes: Horror's First-Person Camerawork Part 1: Killer POV...
Chapter 4: The Blackest Eyes... The Devil's Eyes: Horror's First-Person Camerawork Part 2: The Searching Camera...
Part 2: Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
Chapter 5: The Monster Function
Chapter 6: Monsters, and the Viewers Who Love Them
Chapter 7: Monster Stories/Storied Monsters
Epilogue: Three Ways of Looking at Horror
Selected Bibliography
Index
