Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. vii, 223 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "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

1. Horror films > History and criticism
2. Horror television programs > History and criticism
3. Motion picture audiences
4. New horror cinema

Contents

1. 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

1. MFL 13-2499

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-215) and index.

Author

1. Ndalianis, Angela.

Title

1. The horror sensorium : media and the senses / Angela Ndalianis.

Imprint

1. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2012.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-215) and index.

Indexed term

1. New horror cinema

LCCN

1. 2012028777

Other standard identifier

1. 40021501150

ISBN

1. 9780786461271 (softcover : alk. paper)
2. 0786461276 (softcover : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. MFL 13-2499