Why horror seduces / Mathias Clasen.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]Description: ix, 190 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780190666514 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780190666507 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 813.009/164 23
- PS374.H67 C53 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Indhold: Part 1: An Evolutionary Theory of Horror; 1. Sizing Up the Beast: What Horror Is, and How It Is Studied; 2. How Horror Works, I: The Evolution and Stimulation of Negative Emotion; 3. How Horror Works, II: Spooky Monsters, Scary Scenarios, and Terrified Characters; 4. Fear for Your Life: The Appeals, Functions, and Effects of Horror; Part 2: Evolutionary Perspectives on American Horror; 5. Monsters Everywhere: A Very Brief Overview of American HorrorIndhold: 6. Vampire Apocalypse: I Am Legend (1954)7. Trust No One: Rosemary's Baby (1967); 8. Fight the Dead, Fear the Living: Night of the Living Dead (1968); 9. Never Go Swimming Again: Jaws (1975); 10. Haunted Houses, Haunted Minds: The Shining (1977); 11. Hack n' Slash: Halloween (1978); 12. Lost and Hunted in Bad Woods: The Blair Witch Project (1999); Part 3: Future Evolutions in Horror Entertainment and Horror Research; 13. The Future of Horror.
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