Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2013

The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to popular horror and analyses key torture porn films, mapping out the broader conceptual and contextual concerns that shape the meanings of both 'torture' and 'porn'.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349339952
ISBN-10: 1349339954
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: IX, 232 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2013
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Contents Introduction: 'Welcome To Your Worst Nightmare' PART I: 'TORTURE PORN' (CATEGORY) 1. 'The Past Catches Up to Everyone' – Lineage and Nostalgia 2. 'Bend to our objectives' – 'Torture Porn' as Press Discourse 3. 'No-one approves of what you're doing' – Fans and Filmmakers PART II: 'TORTURE' (MORALITY) Introduction 4. 'Your story's real, and people feel that' – Contextualising Torture 5. 'Some are Victims. Some are Predators. Some are Both' – Torturous Positions 6. 'In the land of the pig, the butcher is king' – Torture, Spaces, and Power PART III: 'PORN' (EXTREMITY) Introduction 7. 'Ladies first'? – Torture Porn, Sex, and Misogyny 8. 'Why are you crying? Aren't you having fun?' – Extreme Porn 9. 'You Will Not Believe Your Eyes...or Stomach' – Hardcore Horror Conclusion: 'Will You Continue?' – Beyond 'Torture Porn' Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

Recenzii

'This pioneering study bravely goes to unchartered territories in order to explain the label's implied porn-horror confluence and examine critically neglected subgenres.' - Dejan Ognjanovic, Rue Morgue

Notă biografică

Steve Jones is Lecturer in Media at Northumbria University, UK. His research focuses primarily on the horror genre and topics of representation and gender, particularly on representations of sex and violence. He has published widely in international journals such as the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, Scope, Horror Studies, Animation and Sexualities. This is his first book.

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