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L'image hantée : horreur et épouvante dans le cinéma et les séries américaines contemporaines
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ISBN: 9782875744975 Year: 2023 Publisher: Lausanne : Peter Lang,

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De nombreux livres ont été écrits sur le cinéma et les séries télévisées d'épouvante et d'horreur au sein des États-Unis contemporains, mais aucun en France n’avait encore tenté de traiter le phénomène dans son ensemble. Pour répondre à cette ambition, quinze spécialistes ont été invités à se focaliser chacun sur un élément précis du sujet. De nombreux aspects complémentaires sont ainsi abordés, comme la résurgence du motif cannibale, l’influence de l'imaginaire « trumpien », le spiritisme, l'horreur adolescente, l'épouvante cybernétique, la prégnance de la figure du zombie ou l'importance du gore. L’analyse de tous ces territoires, à laquelle s’ajoute une bibliographie de référence sur le sujet, permettra au lecteur d'appréhender les fondements des peurs américaines contemporaines, de découvrir en quoi ce cinéma est si important pour comprendre cette civilisation et d'appréhender de nouveaux réalisateurs, encore peu connus, mais en plein devenir.


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Tracing the borders of Spanish horror cinema and television
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ISBN: 9780415348638 9781315229249 9781351858496 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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Monstrous forms : moving image horror across media
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ISBN: 9780190916237 9780190916244 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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It makes us jump. It makes us scream. It haunts our nightmares. So why do we watch horror? Why do we play it? What could possibly be appealing about a genre that tries to terrify us? Why would we subject ourselves to shriek-inducing shocks, or spend dozens of hours watching a television show about grotesque flesh-eating monsters? Horror offers us a connection to fears that are otherwise unspeakable, even inconceivable, so why do we seek it out? Monstrous Forms offers a theory of horror that works through the genre across a broad range of contemporary moving-image media: film, television, videogames, YouTube, gifs, streaming, virtual reality. This book analyzes our experience of and engagement with horror by focusing on its form, paying special attention to the common ground, the styles and forms that move between mediums. It looks at the ways that moving-image horror addresses its audiences, the ways that it elicits, or demands, responses from its viewers, players, browsers. Camera movement (or "camera" movement), jump scares, offscreen monsters--horror innovates and perfects styles that directly provoke and stimulate the bodies in front of the screen. Analyzing films including Paranormal Activity, It Follows, and Get Out, videogames including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Layers of Fear, and Until Dawn, and TV shows including The Walking Dead and American Horror Story, Monstrous Forms argues for understanding horror through its sensational address and dissects the forms that make that address so effective. Horror, Film Studies, New Media, Digital Media, Game Studies, Television Studies, Monsters and Monstrosity, Gifs, YouTube, Netflix, Spectatorship


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Gender and contemporary horror in television
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ISBN: 1787691055 1787691039 1787691047 1787691063 9781787691032 9781787691056 9781787691049 Year: 2019 Publisher: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing,

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The successful return of horror to our television screens in the post-millennial years, and across a multi-media range of platforms, demonstrates that this previously moribund genre is once again vibrant, challenging and long-lasting. The traditional TV audience of the past would have watched very few horror TV shows, because not many were made. But that has changed. Programme makers have tapped into their public's insatiable need - in these days of terrorism, violence and mayhem - to provide programmes that have high production values, engaging storylines, and plenty of frights and gore. Horror TV offers a safety-valve for its audience, one that enables them to enter into it from the safety of their armchairs. The era of instant access, streaming, downloading and binge-watching whole seasons over a weekend, where fandom has blossomed into a cultural force, clearly shows horror as a vital part of today's TV scheduling. This edited collection investigates the rising popularity of horror-television through deconstructing the gender roles within them via series of case studies including such programmes as Hannibal, American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, Penny Dreadful, Supernatural, The Exorcist and Bates Motel. By using a series of case studies and employing theoretical modes of close analysis, each chapter demonstrates how and why these TV shows are important in reflecting the changing gender roles within modern society.

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