Neil (Hrsg.) Jackson

Snuff

Real Death and Screen Media

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Kimber, Shaun (Hrsg.) / Walker, Johnny (Hrsg.) / Watson, Thomas Joseph (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-62892-113-7
EAN: 9781628921137
Produktnummer: 27948173
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'254 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 65 bw illus

Über den Autor

Neil Jackson teaches film at the University of Lincoln, UK, and has published on popular cinema in various books and journals. He is currently preparing a critical study of Hollywood's representation of the adult film industry. Shaun Kimber is Senior Lecturer in Media Theory at Bournemouth University, UK. He is the author of Controversies: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (2011) and is currently working on the co-authored book Writing & Selling Horror Screenplays. Johnny Walker is Lecturer in Media 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.