Theatricality in the horror film : a brief study on the dark pleasures of screen artifice /
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 fo...
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| Materialtyp: | Licensed eBooks |
| Språk: | engelska |
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London :
Anthem Press
2020
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| Länkar: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvq4c12z |
Innehållsförteckning:
- Introduction: of monsters and monstration
- Horror, realism and theatricality
- The theatricality of monstrous villainy in film adaptations of horror plays
- The theater as locus horribilis: staging the paradox of tragic horror
- The theatricality of horror: characters, unities and styles
- Conclusion: the theatricality of horor spectatorship