Torture porn in the wake of 9/11 : horror, exploitation, and the cinema of sensation /
Saw, Hostel, The Devil's Rejects: this wave of horror movies has been classed under the disparaging label "torture porn." Since David Edelstein coined the term for a New York magazine article a few years after 9/11, many critics have speculated that these movies simply reflect iconic...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London :
Rutgers University Press
[2015]
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| Edice: | War culture.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1647cp0 |
Obsah:
- Torture porn: from 9/11 to the multiplex
- The torture porn genre : key tropes
- Some antecedents : sadism, exploitation, and (neo- )slashers
- The Saw franchise : videogames, and the sadistic pro(an)tagonist Jigsaw
- The Hostel films : consuming bodies
- "I think we took a wrong turn . . ."
- Soft-core, and beyond torture porn.