Digital Horror

Xavier Aldana Reyes is Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. Linnie Blake is Director of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, University of Manchester.

• INTRODUCTION 1.    Linnie Blake and Xavier Aldana Reyes, ‘Horror in the Digital Age’ SECTION 1. HAUNTED TECHNOLOGIES AND NETWORK PANIC 1. Steffen Hantke, ‘Network Anxiety: Prefiguring Digital Anxieties in the American Horror Film’ 2. Steve Jones, ‘Torture Pornopticon: (In)security Cameras, Self-Governance and Autonomy’ 3. Steen Christiansen, ‘Uncanny Cameras and Network Subjects’ 4. Neal Kirk, ‘Networked Spectrality: In Memorium, Pulse and Beyond’ SECTION 2. DIGITAL HORROR AND THE POST/NATIONAL 5. Linnie Blake and Mary Ainslie, 'Digital Witnessing and Trauma Testimony in Ghost Game: Cambodian Genocide, Digital Horror and the Nationalism of New Thai Cinema’ 6. Dejan Ognjanovi?, ‘“Welcome to the Reality Studio": Serbian Hand-Held Horrors’ 7. Zeynep Sahinturk, ‘Djinn in the Machine: Technology and Islam in Turkish Horror Film’ 8. Mark Freeman, ‘An Uploadable Cinema: Digital Horror and the Postnational Image’ SECTION 3. DIGITAL STYLISTICS 9. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, ‘The Politics and Poetics of Night Vision’ 10. James Aston, ‘Nightmares outside the mainstream: August Underground and reel/real horror’ 11. Xavier Aldana Reyes, ‘The [•REC] Quartet: Affective Possibilities and Stylistic Limitations of Found Footage Horror'

This excellent and cohesive volume makes a timely and much needed intervention into the field of Gothic studies. By combining political awareness with a close attention to the cinematic history and language of the found footage film, this collection manages to articulate the significance of what is all too often a critical maligned form. Thanks to the skillful editing from Blake and Aldana Reyes, the cohesion of the whole collection is assured and the critical exploration of the form deeply compelling.