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Horror in Architecture
A new edition of this extensive visual analysis of
horror tropes and their architectural analogues
Horror in Architecture presents an unflinching look at
how horror genre tropes manifest in the built environment. Spanning
the realms of art, design, literature, and film, this newly revised
and expanded edition compiles examples from all areas of popular
culture to form a visual anthology of the architectural
uncanny.
Rooted in the Romantic and Gothic treatment of horror as a
serious aesthetic category, Horror in Architecture
establishes incisive links between contemporary horror media and
its parallel traits found in various architectural designs. Through
chapters dedicated to distorted and monstrous buildings, abandoned
spaces, extremes of scale, and other structural peculiarities, and
featuring new essays on insurgent natures, blobs, and architectural
puppets, this volume brings together diverse architectural
anomalies and shows how their unsettling effects deepen our
fascination with the unreal.
Intended for both horror fans and students of visual culture,
Horror in Architecture turns a unique lens on the
relationship between the human body and the artificial landscapes
it inhabits. Extensively illustrated with photographs, film stills,
and diagrams, this book retrieves horror from the cultural fringes
and demonstrates how its attributes permeate the modern condition
and the material world.
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The Horror of Police
Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and
maintained by the violence of police Year after year the
crisis churns: graft and corruption, violence and murder, riot cops
and armored vehicles claim city streets. Despite promises of
reform, police operate with impunity, unaccountable to law. In
The Horror of Police , Travis Linnemann asks why, with this
open record of violence and corruption, policing remains for so
many the best, perhaps only means of security in an insecure
world.
Drawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Linnemann
recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed \"monster fighters\"
but as monsters themselves, a terrifying force set loose in the
world. Purposefully misreading a collection of everyday police
stories (TV cop dramas, detective fiction, news media accounts, the
direct words of police) not as morality tales of innocence avenged
and order restored but as horror , Linnemann reveals the
monstrous violence at the heart of liberal social order.
The Horror of Police shows that police violence is not
a deviation but rather a deliberate and permanent fixture of U.S.
\"law and order.\" Only when viewed through the refracted motif of
horror stories, Linnemann argues, can we begin to reckon the limits
of police and imagine a world without them.
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Danse macabre
The author addresses the topic of what makes horror horrifying and what makes terror terrifying. King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books and films that comprise the horror genre--from Frankenstein and Dracula to The exorcist, The twilight zone and Earth vs. the flying saucers.
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The Politics of Everyday Fear
The contemporary consumer is bombarded with fear-inducing images and information. This media shower of imagery is equaled only by the sheer quantity of fear-assuaging products offered for our consumption. The contributors address questions raised by the saturation of social space by capitalized fear.
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Monstrous forms : moving image horror across media
\"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? Horror offers us a connection to fears that are otherwise unspeakable, even inconceivable, so why do we seek it out? Monstrous Forms offers a theory of horror that works through the genre across a broad range of contemporary moving-image media: film, television, videogames, 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 directly provoke and stimulate the bodies in front of the screen. Analyzing films including Paranormal Activity, It Follows, and Get Out, videogames including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Layers of Fear, and Until Dawn, and TV shows including The Walking Dead and American Horror Story, Monstrous Forms argues for understanding horror through its sensational address and dissects the forms that make that address so effective. Horror, Film Studies, New Media, Digital Media, Game Studies, Television Studies, Monsters and Monstrosity, Gifs, YouTube, Netflix, Spectatorship\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures
Monstrous Beings of Media Cultures examines the monsters and sinister creatures that spawn from folk horror, Gothic fiction, and from various sectors of media cultures. The collection illuminates how folk monsters form across different art and media traditions, and interrogates the 21C revitalization of “folk” as both a cultural formation and aesthetic mode. The essays explore how combinations of vernacular and institutional creative processes shape the folkloric and/or folkoresque attributes of monstrous beings, their popularity, and the contexts in which they are received.
While it focuses on 21C permutations of folk monstrosity, the collection is transhistorical in approach, featuring chapters that focus on contemporary folk monsters, historical antecedents, and the pre-C21st art and media traditions that shaped enduring monstrous beings. The collection also illuminates how folk monsters and folk “horror” travel across cultures, media, and time periods, and how iconic monsters are tethered to yet repeatedly become unanchored from material and regional contexts.
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New Israeli Horror
Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films.Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens.The next decade saw a blossoming of the genre by young Israeli filmmakers.New Israeli Horror is the first book to tell their story.
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