Cecilia Sayad

Broschiertes Buch

The Ghost in the Image

Technology and Reality in the Horror Genre

Beschreibung

The Ghost in the Image offers a new take on the place that supernatural phenomena occupy in everyday life by examining nonfictional works not traditionally associated with the horror genre and participative forms of engaging with horror themes such as experiential viewing and game playing. The book covers a variety of media: spirit photography, found-footage horror movies, ghost-hunting reality shows, documentary and fiction films based on the Amityville and Enfield hauntings, survival games, and creepypasta. These works transform our interest in ghosts into an interactive form of entertainment and, perhaps disturbingly, brings them closer to the reality of our everyday lives.

Autor

Cecilia Sayad is Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Kent. She is the author of Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema (2013) and co-editor (with Mattias Frey) of Film Criticism in the Digital Age (2015). Her articles have appeared in Screen, Film Quarterly, Cinema Journal and Framework, among others. Her "Found-Footage Horror and the Frame's Undoing" was the winner of the 2017 British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies award for Best Journal Article.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 239mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780190065775
• ISBN-10: 019006577X
• Artikelnr.: 62162770