Post-Horror

Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvDavid Church,Indiana University) Church, David (Department of Communication and Culture

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Horror’s longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Variously dubbed 'elevated horror' and 'post-horror,' films such as The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, It Comes at Night, Get Out, The Invitation, Hereditary, Midsommar, A Ghost Story, and mother! represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has often earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. Post-Horror is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-02-16
Mått156 x 234 x 26 mm
Vikt570 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474475884

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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