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Affective Strategies in Transnational Media
Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention is n...
New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films
A sweeping survey of how global filmmakers have treated the subject of the Holocaust....
Coming to Terms with "unimaginable" Suffering and "incomprehensible" Horror in Visual Culture
The study analyzes the way in which cultures represent and make sense of catastrophic events through the medium of the visual arts. This work should a...
De-Naturalizing Story Structures in the Cinematic, Televisual, and Videogames
This book explores the stupid as it manifests in media—the cinema, television and streamed content, and videogames. The stupid is theorized not as a...
Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation
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...
The Beautiful, Sexual Arousal, and Laughter
Examines the cinematic strategies that elicit visceral pleasure in the face of content that is crass, politically problematic, or unethical...