Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1628921129 ISBN 13 : 9781628921120

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Synopsis

Brings together scholars from film and media studies for the definitive academic study of 'real death' on screen - from horror cinema, to pornography, to online 'shock videos'.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Neil Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Lincoln, UK. He is co-editor of Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media (Bloomsbury, 2016).

SHAUN KIMBER is a Senior Lecturer in the Media School at Bournemouth University, UK.

Johnny Walker is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts at Northumbria University, UK. He is the author of Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society (2015) and founding co-editor of the Global Exploitation Cinemas book series (Bloomsbury).

Thomas Joseph Watson is Lecturer in Media Studies at Teesside University, UK. His research investigates the role of film form in the depiction of violence in contemporary audio-visual media. He has published on pornography, documentary film, and experimental video-art.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The phenomenon of so-called 'snuff movies' (films that allegedly document real acts of murder, specifically designed to 'entertain' and sexually arouse the spectator) represents a fascinating socio-cultural paradox. At once unproven, yet accepted by many, as emblematic of the very worst extremes of pornography and horror, moral detractors have argued that the mere idea of snuff constitutes the logical (and terminal) extension of generic forms that are dependent primarily upon the excitement, stimulation and, ultimately, corruption of the senses. Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media brings together scholars from film and media studies to assess the longevity of one of screen media's most enduring cultural myths. Thorough, provocative, and well argued, the contributions to this volume address areas ranging from exploitation movies, the video industry, trends in contemporary horror cinema, pornography and Web 2.0.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1628921129
• ISBN 13: 9781628921120
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Éditeur: Jackson Dr Neil, Kimber Shaun, Walker Johnny, Watson Thomas Joseph
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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