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Dark Thoughts : Philosophic Reflections On Cinematic Horror

  • Dark Thoughts : Philosophic Reflections On Cinematic Horror

  • Attribution

    edited by Steven Jay Schneider, Daniel Shaw

  • Publication Details

    Book, Scarecrow Press, 2003

  • Availability

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      (UPPER LEVEL)  PN1995.9.H6 D27 2003         AVAILABLE

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    This is a collection of highly engaging and provocative essays by top scholars in the increasingly interrelated fields of Philosophy, Film Studies, and Communication Arts that deal with the epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and genre dynamics of horror cinema past and present, reveals that our fascination with horror cinema, and the pleasure we take in it, is in the end simply a natural extension of a philosopher’s inclination to wonder. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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  • Contents

    • Horror, tragedy and pleasure: the general theory of horrific appeal / Nol 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 philosophic 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)

  • ISBN

    • 0810847922
    • 9780810847927

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