Tag: Horror

Body Horror Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes


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English | 2023 | ISBN: B0BWPKQCST | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 8 hours and 24 minutes | 231 Mb
Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and surprising humor, these essays range from investigative-probing the Cambodian garment industry, the history of menstrual products, or the gender biases of patent law-to uncomfortably intimate. Informed by her own navigation of several autoimmune diagnoses, Moore examines what it takes to seek care and community in the increasingly complicated, problematic, and disinterested US healthcare system.
A Lambda Literary Award finalist and a Chicago Review of Books Nonfiction Award shortlist title, Body Horror is "sharp, shocking, and darkly funny. . . . Brainy and historically informed, this collection is less a rallying cry or a bitter diatribe than a series of irreverent and ruthlessly accurate jabs at a culture that is slowly devouring us" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Featuring an updated introduction and new essays, this new edition of Body Horror is a fascinating, insightful portrait of the gore that encapsulates contemporary American politics.

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Transmedia Terrors in Post-TV Horror Digital Distribution, Abject Spectrums and Participatory Culture


Free Download James Rendell, "Transmedia Terrors in Post-TV Horror: Digital Distribution, Abject Spectrums and Participatory Culture"
English | ISBN: 9463726322 | 2023 | 334 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In the twenty-first century horror television has spread across the digital TV landscape, garnering mainstream appeal. Located within a transmedia matrix, Transmedia Terrors in Post-TV Horror triangulates this boom across screen content, industry practices, and online participatory cultures. Understanding the genre within a post-TV paradigm, the book readdresses what is horror television, analysing not only broadcast TV and streaming platforms but also portals such as YouTube, Twitch.TV, and apps. The book also investigates complex digital media ecologies, blurring distinctions between niche and general audience viewing practices, and fostering new circulation pathways for horror television from around the world. Undertaking netnography, the book further offers an innovative model – abject spectrums – to empirically explore myriad audience responses to TV horror, manifesting in various participatory practices including writing, imagery, and crafts. As such, the book greatly expands what is considered horror television, its formatting and circulation, and the transmedia materiality of audience engagement.

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Monstrous Forms Moving Image Horror Across Media


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English | ISBN: 0190916230 | 2019 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 15 MB
It makes us jump. It makes us scream. It haunts our nightmares. So why do we watch horror? Why do we play it? What could possibly be appealing about a genre that tries to terrify us? Why would we subject ourselves to shriek-inducing shocks, or spend dozens of hours watching a television show about grotesque flesh-eating monsters? Monstrous Forms offers a theory of horror that works through the genre across a broad range of contemporary moving-image media: film, television, video games, YouTube, gifs, streaming, virtual reality. This book analyzes our experience of and engagement with horror by focusing on its form, paying special attention to the common ground, the styles and forms that move between mediums. It looks at the ways that moving-image horror addresses its audiences, the ways that it elicits, or demands, responses from its viewers, players, browsers. Camera movement (or "camera" movement), jump scares, offscreen monsters-horror innovates and perfects styles that

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Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic


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1995 | 199 Pages | ISBN: 0313275238 | PDF | 11 MB
Drawing from feminist film theory, psychoanalytic theory, cultural criticism, and gender studies, Badley interprets horror film as a discourse of the body.

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Spanish Horror Film and Television in the 21st Century


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English | ISBN: 1032245662 | 2023 | 108 pages | PDF | 1272 KB
This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics. It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films and TV series as well as novel approaches to key works within the history of Spanish cinema.

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Reading in the Dark Horror in Children’s Literature and Culture


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English | 2016 | ISBN: 1496806441, 1496814894 | PDF | pages: 259 | 4.0 mb
Contributions by Rebecca A. Brown, Justine Gieni, Holly Harper, Emily L. Hiltz, A. Robin Hoffman, Kirsten Kowalewski, Peter C. Kunze, Jorie Lagerwey, Nick Levey, Jessica R. McCort, and Janani Subramanian

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Gender, Sexuality and Queerness in American Horror Story Critical Essays


Free Download Harriet E.H. Earle, "Gender, Sexuality and Queerness in American Horror Story: Critical Essays"
English | ISBN: 1476678847 | 2019 | 191 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The horror anthology TV show American Horror Story first aired on FX Horror in 2011 and has thus far spanned eight seasons. Addressing many areas of cultural concern, the show has tapped in to conversations about celebrity culture, family dynamics, and more. This volume with nine new essays and one reprinted one considers how this series engages with representations of gender, sexuality, queer identities and other LGBTQ issues. The contributors address myriad elements of

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