Found Footage Horror Films

Fear and the Appearance of Reality (livre en anglais)

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de Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Genre > Horreur

Mots Clés

horreur, peurs

Année d'édition

2014

Editeur

McFarland & Co

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Broché • 244 pages
15 x 23 cm

ISBN

978-0-7864-7077-8

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Description de l'ouvrage :
As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror’s amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror’s dark and tantalizing fantasies. Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre’s stylistic, historical and thematic development. It examines the diverse prehistory beyond Man Bites Dog (1992) and Cannibal Holocaust (1980), paying attention to the safety films of the 1960s, the snuff-fictions of the 1970s, and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s in particular. It underscores the importance of The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007), and considers YouTube’s popular rise in sparking the subgenre’s recent renaissance.

À propos de l'auteur :
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is a film critic and author of ten books on cult, horror and exploitation cinema with an emphasis on gender politics.

Revue de Presse :
"excellent addition to the shelves or tablets of any horror scholar"—Dead Reckonings; "his research is quite impressive"—Scarlet the Film Magazine; "definitive"—SFCrowsnest; "a gratifying, thorough and wide-in-scope look"—Flick Attack.

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