TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Monstrous forms :moving image horror across media /
AU  - Hart, Adam Charles,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - PN1995.9.H6
ID  - 915637
KW  - Horror films
KW  - Horror in mass media.
KW  - Horror television programs
SN  - 9780190916275
TI  - Monstrous forms :moving image horror across media /
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190916237.001.0001
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190916237.001.0001
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