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n recent years, the ways in which digital technologies have come to shape our experience of the world has been an immensely popular subject in the horror film genre. Contemporary horror cinema reflects and exploits the anxieties of our age, in its increasing use of hand-held techniques and in its motifs of surveillance, found footage (fictional films that appear 'real': comprising discovered video recordings left behind by victims/protagonists) and 'digital haunting' (when ghosts inhabit digital technologies). This book offers an exploration of the digital horror film phenomenon, across different national cultures and historic periods, examining the sub-genres of CCTV horror, technological haunting, snuff films, found footage and torture porn. Digital horror, it demonstrates, is a product of the post 9/11 neo-liberal world view - characterised by security paranoia, constant surveillance and social alienation. Digital horror screens its subjects via the trans-national technologies of our age - such as the camcorder and CCTV - and records them in secret footage that may, one day, be found.

Book details

Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Digital Horror
• Author: BLAKE LINNIE AND REY
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 200
• EAN: 9781784530259
• ISBN: 9781784530259
• ID: 06666611
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 498 g
• Dimensions: 168 × 242 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. October 2015

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