Embodiment and Horror Cinema
Using the four tissue types (connective, epithelial, nervous, and muscular), Dudenhoeffer expands and complicates the subgenre of "body horror." Changing the emphasis from the contents of the film to the "organicity" of its visual and affective registers,
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Embodiment and Horror Cinema
10.1057/9781137404961 - Embodiment and Horror Cinema, Larrie Dudenhoeffer
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Larrie Dudenhoeffer
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Embodiment and Horror Cinema
embodiment and horror cinema
Copyright © Larrie Dudenhoeffer, 2014. First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–1–137–40495–4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dudenhoeffer, Larrie, 1974– Embodiment and horror cinema / Larrie Dudenhoeffer. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–1–137–40495–4 (hardback) 1. Horror films—History and criticism. 2. Human body in motion pictures. I. Title. PN1995.9.H6D79 2014 791.4396164—dc23
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for shedding so much light on me
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To my family and friends, and to Terri,
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List of Figures Darkness into Light: An Introduction to the Four Tissue Types of Horror Cinema
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1 Elbows and Assholes: The Anal Work Ethic in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho
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2 Spectral Filtering: Smart Television on the “Silver Screen” in Gore Verbinski’s The Ring
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3 The Red Scare: Marxism, Menstruation, and Stuart Rose
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