Search results for ""author shellie mcmurdo""
Edinburgh University Press Blood on the Lens: Trauma and Anxiety in American Found Footage Horror Cinema
Connects the found footage horror subgenre to significant traumatic events and societal anxieties in American history and contemporary America Explores how the most visually recognisable post-millennial subgenre engages with cultural trauma Demonstrates how found footage horror continues to offer new thematic and aesthetic ways of confronting and working through trauma and anxiety Analyses a range of key films (both mainstream and lesser known titles), and key movements in the subgenre (for example the movement from documentary conventions to social media aesthetics) Identifies how significant cultural events have impacted on, and been integrated within, found footage horror Examines the subgenre in a post-cinematic age, where cinema is no longer the dominant cultural spectacle it once was Through an identification of key case studies both mainstream and lesser known, Blood on the Lens: Trauma and Anxiety in American Found Footage Horror Cinema argues that found footage horror cinema is uniquely able to confront a pervasive contemporary culture of anxiety and trauma. This book traces how and why the subgenre has continued to endure, even as we enter a post-cinematic landscape. Through three distinct sections, Blood on the Lens proposes key observations on the found footage horror subgenre. She questions how these films engage with national trauma, the common themes of this body of films and how they relate to wider anxieties. In addition, McMurdo investigates the effect various cultural movements have had on the aesthetics of found footage horror, how these films position their spectator and encourage an active viewing mode, and how the line between fiction and fact is blurred both paratextually and within the films themselves.
£97.41
Edinburgh University Press Blood on the Lens
Connects the found footage horror subgenre to significant traumatic events and societal anxieties in American history and contemporary America
£19.99
Liverpool University Press Pet Sematary
Most scholarship on Mary Lambert's Pet Sematary (1989) overarchingly focuses on the Stephen King novel (1983), and tends strongly towards housing the story within the Gothic literary tradition. The film itself is often absent from considerations of North American horror cinema of the 1980s, and from wider horror scholarship in general. This Devil's Advocate stands as a corrective, and provides a holistic analysis – textual, contextual, and industrial – of the film, in order to properly situate it as an important entry into the history of horror cinema. This book joins a growing body of works – both journalistic and academic – that aim to revisit older films in order to call attention to and/or redress the gendered imbalance in our written horror histories. McMurdo charges Pet Sematary with several contributions to the horror genre: as an important entry within the tradition of “grief horror”; as a horror film that both adheres to and defies the generic conventions of its historical context, one both engaged with and respondent to its time of creation; as a film that changed the fortunes of the cinematic Stephen King “brand” on the cusp of a new decade. Pet Sematary is the highest grossing horror film directed by a woman in cinematic history, and it stands as a story that we keep returning to – as seen by the 1992 sequel, the 2019 remake, and a forthcoming prequel. Pet Sematary’s modern relevance and importance to genre history then, is manifold, and this book argues it is past time for its reconsideration as a classic of horror cinema.
£75.92
