DELEUZE AND HORROR FILM

Sinopse

"This book argues that dominant psychoanalytic approaches to horror films neglect the aesthetics of horror. Yet cinematic devices such as mise-en-scene, editing and sound are central to the viewer's visceral fear and arousal. Using Deleuze's work on art and film. Anna Powell argues that film viewing is a form of 'altered consciousness' and the experience of viewing horror film an 'embodied event'." "Themes such an insanity, sensory response to film, the subject/object, fractured time, the body and cinematography are explored in horror films such as Jacob's Ladder, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, The Fly, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Alien resurrection, The Others, The Shining, Interview with the Vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Nosferatu."--Jacket.