Steve Jones

eBook, PDF

Torture Porn (eBook, PDF)

Popular Horror after Saw

Beschreibung

The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to popular horror and analyses key torture porn films, mapping out the broader conceptual and contextual concerns that shape the meanings of both 'torture' and 'porn'.

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Autor

Steve Jones is Lecturer in Media at Northumbria University, UK. His research focuses primarily on the horror genre and topics of representation and gender, particularly on representations of sex and violence. He has published widely in international journals such as the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, Scope, Horror Studies, Animation and Sexualities. This is his first book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137317124
• Artikelnr.: 39288236

Rezensionen

'This pioneering study bravely goes to unchartered territories in order to explain the label's implied porn-horror confluence and examine critically neglected subgenres.' - Dejan Ognjanovic, Rue Morgue