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As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies.
Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. It examines the diverse prehistory beyond Man Bites Dog (1992) and Cannibal Holocaust (1980), paying attention to the safety films of the 1960s, the snuff-fictions of the 1970s, and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s in particular. It underscores the importance of The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007), and considers YouTube's popular rise in sparking the subgenre's recent renaissance.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Expanding the Prehistory: 1938-1998
One. Safety Films
Two. Snuff-Fictions
Three. Television
Part 2: A Critical Chronology: 1998-2009
Four. Revisiting The Blair Witch Project
Five. The Vanishing of the Real
Six. Approaching Paranormal Activity
Part 3: Further Discoveries: 2007-2013
Seven. Exorcism Films
Eight. The Family
Nine. Nation, History and Identity
Conclusion: The Specter of Commercialism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
