Blood on the Lens : Trauma and Anxiety in American Found Footage Horror Cinema

McMurdo, Shellie

Edinburgh University Press（2024/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474482097
• DDC分類 791.436164

Full Description

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.

Contents

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Acknowledgements

1. Found Footage Horror: A Cinema of Absences
Part One
2. Found Footage Horror and Documentary Conventions
3. Found Footage Horror and Historical Trauma
4. Found Footage Horror and Televisual Actualities
Part Two
5. Found Footage Horror, 9/11, and a Culture of Fear
6.'They're going to let us die': Trust in Found Footage Horror
7. 'What if they're not even listening?': Truth in Found Footage Horror
Part Three
8. Death in Digital: Found Footage Horror and the Internet
9. 'You have committed a fatal error': Social Media Horror
10. The Footage Yet to Be Found
Bibliography

Found Footage

Filmography and Other Media

Filmography

Index