Post-Horror
Author | : David Church |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2021-02-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781474475907 |
ISBN-13 | : 1474475906 |
Rating | : 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Download or read book Post-Horror written by David Church and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror’s longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Variously dubbed 'elevated horror' and 'post-horror,' films such as The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, It Comes at Night, Get Out, The Invitation, Hereditary, Midsommar, A Ghost Story, and mother! represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has often earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. Post-Horror is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema.