Blood on the Lens
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-8209-7 (ISBN)
Through an identification of key case studies both mainstream and lesser known, Blood on the Lens: Trauma and Anxiety in American Found Footage Horror Cinema argues that found footage horror cinema is uniquely able to confront a pervasive contemporary culture of anxiety and trauma. This book traces how and why the subgenre has continued to endure, even as we enter a post-cinematic landscape.
Through three distinct sections, Blood on the Lens proposes key observations on the found footage horror subgenre. She questions how these films engage with national trauma, the common themes of this body of films and how they relate to wider anxieties. In addition, McMurdo investigates the effect various cultural movements have had on the aesthetics of found footage horror, how these films position their spectator and encourage an active viewing mode, and how the line between fiction and fact is blurred both paratextually and within the films themselves.
Shellie McMurdo lectures at the University of Hertfordshire, and is a co-convenor of the BAFTSS Horror Studies Special Interest Group. She is the author of Devil’s Advocates: Pet Sematary. Shellie has also published on the true crime fandom, school shooters and American Horror Story, post-peak torture horror, and the role of found footage horror in Blumhouse Productions. Her research focuses on contemporary North American horror cinema, cultural trauma, and the use of analogue media in horror narratives.
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Acknowledgements
1. Found Footage Horror: A Cinema of Absences
Part One
2. Found Footage Horror and Documentary Conventions
3. Found Footage Horror and Historical Trauma
4. Found Footage Horror and Televisual Actualities
Part Two
5. Found Footage Horror, 9/11, and a Culture of Fear
6.‘They’re going to let us die’: Trust in Found Footage Horror
7. ‘What if they’re not even listening?’: Truth in Found Footage Horror
Part Three
8. Death in Digital: Found Footage Horror and the Internet
9. ‘You have committed a fatal error’: Social Media Horror
10. The Footage Yet to Be Found
Bibliography
Found Footage
Filmography and Other Media
Filmography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 18 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-8209-0 / 1474482090 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-8209-7 / 9781474482097 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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