Dark thoughts : philosophic reflections on cinematic horror / edited by Steven Jay Schneider, Daniel Shaw
- Published:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2003.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 294 pages ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Schneider, Steven Jay, 1974- and Shaw, Daniel, 1951-
- Contents:
- Horror, tragedy, and pleasure. The general theory of horrific appeal / Noël Carroll -- The mastery of Hannibal Lecter / Daniel Shaw -- The lived nightmare: trauma, anxiety, and the ethical aesthetics of horror / Elizabeth Cowie -- Aristotelian reflections on horror and tragedy in An American werewolf in London and The sixth sense / Angela Curran -- Horror's philosopher-auteurs. Heidegger, the uncanny, and Jacques Tourneur's horror films / Curtis Bowman -- Hitchcock made only one horror film: matters of time, space, causality, and the Schopenhauerian will / Ken Mogg -- What you can't see can hurt you: of invisible and hollow men / J.P. Telotte -- Philosophical (horror) investigations. On the question of the horror film / Michael Grant -- An event-based definition of art-horror / Matt Hills -- Haunting the house from within: disbelief, mitigation, and spatial experience / Aaron Smuts -- Murder as art/the art of murder: aestheticizing violence in modern cinematic horror / Steven Jay Schneider -- Horror and reality. The slasher's blood lust / Cynthia A. Freeland -- American psycho: horror, satire, aesthetics, and identification / Deborah Knight and George McKnight -- Real horror / Robert C. Solomon (with reply from Daniel Shaw).
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- ISBN:
- 0810847922 (cloth : alk. paper)
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