Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms: From Found Footage to Virtual Reality

Adam Daniel

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms

From Found Footage to Virtual Reality

Adam Daniel

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474456371

Overview
Contents

About this book

Explores theories of cinematic embodiment and affect in relation to horror film

Examines cutting-edge new media forms of horror through distinct and progressive theoretical lenses
Integrates theoretical insights from neuroscience into the study of horror media
Outlines the burgeoning new field of virtual reality cinema, and argues for innovative theoretical approaches to this new modality
Considers textual works that have had limited scholarly analysis, such as Youtube horror media series and recent found footage films (e.g. the Creep films and #Screamers)

Horror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of ‘found footage,’ to post-cinematic new media forms such as Youtube horror, horror video games and cinematic virtual reality horror. By investigating how these new forms alter the dynamics of spectatorship, this book charts how cinema’s affective capacities have shifted in relation to these modifications in the forms of cinematic horror. It applies a rich theoretical synthesis of phenomenological and Deleuzian approaches to a number of case studies, including films like The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity and Creep as well as video games such as Alien: Isolation and new media forms such as Youtube horror and virtual reality horror.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Fro m the Semantic to the Somatic: Aff ective Engagement with Horror Cinema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. From Identifi cation to Embodied Spectatorship in the Found Footage Horror Film Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
3. Camera Supernaturalis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
4. Perception and Point of View in the Found Footage Horror Film: New Understandings via Deleuze’s Perception-Image Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
5. Horrific Entwinement: Affective Neuroscience and the Body of the Horror Spectator Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
6. What Hides behind the Stream: Post-Cinematic Hauntings of the Digital Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
7. Th e Evolving Screen Forms of New Media Horror Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
8. Th e Embodied Player of Horror Video Games Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
9. Th e Spectator-Interactor of Virtual Reality Horror Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Illustrations
- Other: 25 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474456371