Monstrous Forms
Title | Monstrous Forms PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Hart |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0190916230 |
"It makes us jump. It makes us scream. It haunts our nightmares. So why do we watch horror? Why do we play it? What could possibly be appealing about a genre that tries to terrify us? Why would we subject ourselves to shriek-inducing shocks, or spend dozens of hours watching a television show about grotesque flesh-eating monsters? Horror offers us a connection to fears that are otherwise unspeakable, even inconceivable, so why do we seek it out? Monstrous Forms offers a theory of horror that works through the genre across a broad range of contemporary moving-image media: film, television, videogames, YouTube, gifs, streaming, virtual reality. This book analyzes our experience of and engagement with horror by focusing on its form, paying special attention to the common ground, the styles and forms that move between mediums. It looks at the ways that moving-image horror addresses its audiences, the ways that it elicits, or demands, responses from its viewers, players, browsers. Camera movement (or "camera" movement), jump scares, offscreen monsters--horror innovates and perfects styles that directly provoke and stimulate the bodies in front of the screen. Analyzing films including Paranormal Activity, It Follows, and Get Out, videogames including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Layers of Fear, and Until Dawn, and TV shows including The Walking Dead and American Horror Story, Monstrous Forms argues for understanding horror through its sensational address and dissects the forms that make that address so effective. Horror, Film Studies, New Media, Digital Media, Game Studies, Television Studies, Monsters and Monstrosity, Gifs, YouTube, Netflix, Spectatorship"--
The Monstrous New Art
Title | The Monstrous New Art PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Zayaruznaya |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2015-04-02 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1316194655 |
Late medieval motet texts are brimming with chimeras, centaurs and other strange creatures. In The Monstrous New Art, Anna Zayaruznaya explores the musical ramifications of this menagerie in the works of composers Guillaume de Machaut, Philippe de Vitry, and their contemporaries. Aligning the larger forms of motets with the broad sacred and secular themes of their texts, Zayaruznaya shows how monstrous or hybrid exempla are musically sculpted by rhythmic and textural means. These divisive musical procedures point to the contradictory aspects not only of explicitly monstrous bodies, but of such apparently unified entities as the body politic, the courtly lady, and the Holy Trinity. Zayaruznaya casts a new light on medieval modes of musical representation, with profound implications for broader disciplinary narratives about the history of text-music relations, the emergence of musical unity, and the ontology of the musical work.
Monstrous Forms
Title | Monstrous Forms PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Charles Hart |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2019-11-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0190916265 |
It makes us jump. It makes us scream. It haunts our nightmares. So why do we watch horror? Why do we play it? What could possibly appealing about a genre that tries to terrify us? Why would we subject ourselves to shriek-inducing shocks, or spend dozens of hours watching a television show about grotesque flesh-eating monsters? Monstrous Forms offers a theory of horror that works through the genre across a broad range of contemporary moving-image media: film, television, video games, YouTube, gifs, streaming, virtual reality. This book analyzes our experience of and engagement with horror by focusing on its form, paying special attention to the common ground, the styles and forms that move between mediums. It looks at the ways that moving-image horror addresses its audiences, the ways that it elicits, or demands, responses from its viewers, players, browsers. Camera movement (or "camera" movement), jump scares, offscreen monsters-horror innovates and perfects styles that directly provoke and stimulate the bodies in front of the screen. Analyzing films including Paranormal Activity, It Follows, and Get Out, video games including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Layers of Fear, and Until Dawn, and TV shows including The Walking Dead and American Horror Story, Monstrous Forms argues for understanding horror through its sensational address, and dissects the forms that make that address so effective.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous
Title | The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous PDF eBook |
Author | Asa Simon Mittman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 626 |
Release | 2017-02-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351894315 |
The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics, and cultural and media studies. The companion will offer scholars and graduate students the first comprehensive and authoritative review of this emergent field.
Moonshine beyond the Monster
Title | Moonshine beyond the Monster PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Gannon |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 493 |
Release | 2023-07-31 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1009401580 |
Monstrous manifestations: Realities and the Imaginings of the Monster
Title | Monstrous manifestations: Realities and the Imaginings of the Monster PDF eBook |
Author | Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bienkowska |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2019-01-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1848882025 |
An enlightening collection of inter-disciplinary research on the multifarious incarnations of the monster, 'Monstrous Manifestations' invites the reader to venture into the deepest anxieties of the human psyche.
Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
Title | Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | James Hastings |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1838 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Ethics |
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