David Church

Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation

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Horror cinema has long been a popular but culturally denigrated genre. This assumption has been challenged by a new wave of films that mix arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Dubbed elevated horror or post-horror, films such as The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, Get Out, Hereditary, Midsommar, and mother! represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has 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.David Church is a film and media scholar… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4744-7588-4
EAN: 9781474475884
Produktnummer: 34400055
Verlag: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 224 S.

Über den Autor

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, 2021).