Found Footage Horror Films: A Cognitive Approach

ISBN-13: 9781138388512 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 190 str.

Peter Turner

Opis

This book adopts a cognitive theoretical framework to address the mental processes triggered by found footage horror films. Films studied include The Blair Witch Project, Rec, Paranormal Activity, Exhibit A, Cloverfield, Man Bites Dog, The Last Horror Movie, and Zero Day.

Recenzje

"Violence in fi ction is admittedly a difficult topic. And while Turner’s book has a few shortcomings that are attributable to the complications involved in conducting empirical research on horror, his book is an admirable work of cognitive film theory. It should inspire subsequent, testable investigations of his intriguing claims and provoke researchers to devise ethically responsible means of acquiring data pertaining to audience preferences for various types of realist horror." - Rikke Schubart, University of Southern Denmark.

O autorze

Peter Turner is Associate Lecturer in the School of Technology, Design and Environment at Oxford Brookes University, UK