Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11 - Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation

Informationen zum Autor Aaron Michael Kerner Klappentext Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11 challenges the conventional wisdom about horror movies like Hostel and the Saw series. Aaron Kerner argues that, even as these films express anxieties and sadistic fantasies that have emerged from the War on Terror, they are rooted in a much longer tradition of American violence. He also reveals how the “torture porn” aesthetic has gone mainstream, popping up in everything from the television thriller Dexter to the reality show Hell’s Kitchen.   Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsPreface1   Torture Porn: From 9/11 to the Multiplex2   The Torture Porn Genre3   Some Antecedents: Sadism, Exploitation, and (Neo-)Slashers4   The Saw Franchise: Videogames, and the Sadistic Pro(an)tagonist Jigsaw5   The Hostel Films: Consuming Bodies6   “I think we took a wrong turn . . .”7   Soft-core, and Beyond Torture PornFilmographyNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Michael Kerner
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9780813564036
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6403-6
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• Series: War Culture; War Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous