Torture Porn: Popular Horror After Saw - Rilegato

Jones, Steve

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ISBN 10: 0230319416 ISBN 13: 9780230319417

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Riassunto

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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Recensione

'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

L'autore

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.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0230319416
• ISBN 13: 9780230319417
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 232