Post-Horror

David Church is a film and media scholar specializing in genre studies, taste cultures, and histories of film circulation. He is the author of Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video, and Exploitation Film Fandom (EUP, 2015), Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2016), and Mortal Kombat: Games of Death (University of Michigan Press, 2022).

• FiguresAcknowledgments1. Apprehension Engines: Defining a New Wave of Art-Horror Cinema2. "Slow," "Smart," "Indie," "Prestige," "Elevated": Discursive Struggle for Cultural Distinction3. Grief, Mourning, and the Horrors of Familial Inheritance4. Horror by Gaslight: Epistemic Violence and Ambivalent Belonging5. Beautiful, Horrible Desolation: Landscape in Post-Horror Cinema6. Queer Ethics and the Urban Ruin-Porn Landscape: The Horrors of Monogamy in It Follows7. Existential Dread and the Trouble with TranscendenceSelected BibliographyIndex

Church’s investment in reception cultures renders Post-Horror even more valuable as a pedagogical resource. [...] Post-Horror further affirms that the past decade—an epoch of horrors—has provided a fertile opportunity for filmmakers of various marginalized backgrounds to rethink what it means to be horrified.