The horror sensorium : media and the senses
- Title
- The horror sensorium : media and the senses / Angela Ndalianis.
- Published by
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2012.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- vii, 223 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Through analyses of various mediums, this volume explores how the horror genre affects the mind and body of the spectator. By examining how these diverse media generate medium-specific corporeal and sensory responses, it reveals how the sensorium interweaves sensory and intellectual encounters to produce powerful systems of perception"--
- Subject
- Contents
- Introduction -- Horror aesthetics and the sensorium -- Dancing with the living dead: video games, avatars and arms on the brain -- Dark rides, hybrid machines and the multisensory experience -- Paranormal romance: Anita Blake, Sookie Stackhouse and the monsters who love them -- Payback's a bitch! death proof, planet terror and the carnivalization of grindhouse cinema -- Hail to the king! techno-intertexts, video game horror and doom -- Transmedia and the sensorium: from Blair witch to True blood.
- Call number
- MFL 13-2499
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-215) and index.
- Author
- Ndalianis, Angela.
- Title
- The horror sensorium : media and the senses / Angela Ndalianis.
- Imprint
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-215) and index.
- Indexed term
- New horror cinema
- LCCN
- 2012028777
- Other standard identifier
- 40021501150
- ISBN
- 9780786461271 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786461276 (softcover : alk. paper)
- Research call number
- MFL 13-2499