TY  - GEN
T1  - Theatricality in the horror film : a brief study on the dark pleasures of screen artifice
A1  - Loiselle, André
LA  - English
PP  - London
PB  - Anthem Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1123193442
AB  - The horror film generally presents a situation where normality is threatened by a monster. From this premise, Theatricality in the Horror Film argues that scary movies often create their terrifying effects stylistically and structurally through a radical break with the realism of normality in the form of monstrous theatricality. Theatricality in the horror fi lm expresses itself in many ways. For example, it comes across in the physical performance of monstrosity: the overthe-top performance of a chainsaw-wielding serial killer whose nefarious gestures terrify both his victims within the film and the audience in the cinema. Theatrical artifice can also appear as a stagy cemetery with broken-down tombstones and twisted, gnarly trees, or through the use of violently aberrant filmic techniques, or in the oppressive claustrophobia of a single-room setting reminiscent of classical drama. Any performative element of a film that flaunts its difference from what is deemed realistic or normal on screen might qualify as an instance of theatrical artifice, creating an intense affect in the audience. This book argues that the artificiality of the frightening spectacle is at the heart of the dark pleasures of horror
OP  - 121
CN  - PN1995.25 .L65 2020eb
SN  - 9781785271298
SN  - 1785271296
SN  - 9781785271281
SN  - 1785271288
SN  - 178527130X
SN  - 9781785271304
KW  - Motion pictures and theater.
KW  - Horror films.
KW  - Cinéma et théâtre.
KW  - Films d'horreur.
KW  - Horror films
KW  - Motion pictures and theater
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -