Horror is often dismissed as mass art of lowbrow entertainment that produced only shirt-term thrills. Horror films can be bloody, gory and disturbing, so some people argue that they have bad moral effects, inciting viewers to imitate cinematic violence or desensitizing them to atrocities. In The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Ho
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In The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror, Cynthia A. Freeland seeks to counter both aesthetic distain and moral condemnation by focusing on a select body of important and revealing films, demonstrating how the genre is capable of deep philosophical reflection about the existence and nature of evil - both human and cosmic.

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Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Mad Scientists and Monstrous Mothers -- Dr. Frankenstein's Progeny -- Women and Bugs -- Monstrous Flesh -- From Vampires to Slashers -- Seductive Vampires -- The Slasher's Blood Lust -- Feminist Slashers? -- Sublime Spectacles of Disaster -- Uncanny Horror -- Graphic Horror -- EPILOGUE: The Appeal of Horror -- Filmography
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ISBN
9780367318741
Publisert
2019-09-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
340

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Biografisk notat

Cynthia Freeland is professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. She is author of But Is It Art?, co-editor of Philosophy and Film, and editor of Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle