Why Horror Seduces
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Why Horror Seduces
Clasen, Mathias (Associate Professor of Literature and Media, Associate Professor of Literature and Media, Aarhus University)
Oxford University Press Inc
12/2017
200
Dura
Inglês
9780190666507
15 a 20 dias
Why do humans feel the need to scream at horror films? In Why Horror Seduces, author Matthias Clasen looks to evolutionary social science to show how the horror genre is a product of human nature.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Horror, Fear, and Evolution Part 1: An Evolutionary Theory of Horror 1. Sizing Up the Beast: What Horror Is, and How It Is Studied 2. How Horror Works, I: The Evolution and Stimulation of Negative Emotion 3. How Horror Works, II: Spooky Monsters, Scary Scenarios, and Terrified Characters 4. Fear for Your Life: The Appeals, Functions, and Effects of Horror Part 2: Evolutionary Perspectives on American Horror 5. Monsters Everywhere: A Very Brief Overview of American Horror 6. Vampire Apocalypse: I Am Legend (1954) 7. Trust No One: Rosemary's Baby (1967) 8. Fight the Dead, Fear the Living: Night of the Living Dead (1968) 9. Never Go Swimming Again: Jaws (1975) 10. Haunted Houses, Haunted Minds: The Shining (1977) 11. Hack n' Slash: Halloween (1978) 12. Lost and Hunted in Bad Woods: The Blair Witch Project (1999) Part 3: Future Evolutions in Horror Entertainment and Horror Research 13. The Future of Horror References Index
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Why do humans feel the need to scream at horror films? In Why Horror Seduces, author Matthias Clasen looks to evolutionary social science to show how the horror genre is a product of human nature.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Horror, Fear, and Evolution Part 1: An Evolutionary Theory of Horror 1. Sizing Up the Beast: What Horror Is, and How It Is Studied 2. How Horror Works, I: The Evolution and Stimulation of Negative Emotion 3. How Horror Works, II: Spooky Monsters, Scary Scenarios, and Terrified Characters 4. Fear for Your Life: The Appeals, Functions, and Effects of Horror Part 2: Evolutionary Perspectives on American Horror 5. Monsters Everywhere: A Very Brief Overview of American Horror 6. Vampire Apocalypse: I Am Legend (1954) 7. Trust No One: Rosemary's Baby (1967) 8. Fight the Dead, Fear the Living: Night of the Living Dead (1968) 9. Never Go Swimming Again: Jaws (1975) 10. Haunted Houses, Haunted Minds: The Shining (1977) 11. Hack n' Slash: Halloween (1978) 12. Lost and Hunted in Bad Woods: The Blair Witch Project (1999) Part 3: Future Evolutions in Horror Entertainment and Horror Research 13. The Future of Horror References Index
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