Contemporary Horror on Screen: An Evolving Visual Narrative

Baker, Sarah, Rutherford, Amanda, Pamatatau, Richard

Contemporary Horror on Screen: An Evolving Visual Narrative
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-09-16
  • 售價: $4,690
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $4,456
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 234
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 981994967X
  • ISBN-13: 9789819949670

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商品描述

This book highlights how horror in film and television creates platforms to address distinct areas of modern-day concern. In examining the prevalence of dark tropes in contemporary horror films such as Get Out, Annabelle: Creation, A Quiet Place, Hereditary and The Nun, as well as series such as Stranger Things, American Horror Story and Game of Thrones, amongst numerous others, the authors contend that we are witnessing the emergence of a 'horror renaissance'. They posit that horror films or programmes, once widely considered to be a low form of popular culture entertainment, can contain deeper meanings or subtext and are increasingly covering serious subject matter. This book thus explores how horror is utilised as a tool to explore social and political anxieties of the cultural moment and is thus presented as a site for contestation, exploration and expansion to discuss present-day fears. It demonstrates how contemporary horror reflects the horror of modern-day life, be it political, biological, social or environmental. A vital contribution to studies of the horror genre in contemporary culture, and the effect it has on social anxieties in a threatening and seemingly apocalyptic time for the world, this is a vital text for students and researchers in popular culture, film, television and media studies.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書強調了電影和電視中的恐怖如何創造平台，以應對當代特定的關注領域。在檢視當代恐怖電影中黑暗主題的普遍性，例如《逃出絕命鎮》、《安娜貝爾：造孽》、《寂靜之地》、《遺傳厄運》和《修女》，以及《怪奇物語》、《美國恐怖故事》和《權力的遊戲》等系列作品時，作者主張我們正見證一場“恐怖文藝復興”的出現。他們認為，曾經被廣泛視為低俗流行文化娛樂的恐怖電影或節目，實際上可以包含更深層的意義或潛台詞，並且越來越多地涵蓋嚴肅的主題。因此，本書探討了恐怖如何被用作工具，以探索當前文化時刻的社會和政治焦慮，並因此被呈現為一個爭論、探索和擴展的場域，以討論當代的恐懼。它展示了當代恐怖如何反映現代生活的恐怖，無論是政治、生命、生態或環境方面。這是對當代文化中恐怖類型研究的重要貢獻，並探討了它在這個對世界來說威脅重重且似乎末日來臨的時代對社會焦慮的影響，對於流行文化、電影、電視和媒體研究的學生和研究者來說，這是一本重要的文本。

作者簡介

Dr. Sarah Baker is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. She is Co-founder of the AUT Popular Culture Centre and Member of JMAD and the AUT Media Observatory Group. She is Senior Fellow and Member of the AUT Academy. Her extensive research interests include television and film in mediated popular culture focusing on the gothic, horror, sexuality and gender.

Amanda Rutherford is Lecturer in the School of Communication Studies and the School of Language and Culture at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. She is Member of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia, the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand, the International Gothic Association, and the Pacific Modern and Ancient Language Association. She publishes predominantly in the area of mediated popular culture, gothic and horror, and fairy-tale.

Richard Pamatatau is Tenured Journalism Academic at AUT University and Programme Leader in the Journalism Department at the School of Communication Studies. He is Member of the School of Communication Studies' social media, popular cultures and political reporting research groups and Member of the sponsorship and media committee. He has a Master of Creative Writing with First-Class Honours from Auckland University and is completing a Ph.D. in Poetry at Massey University. He is also Member of the Auckland Museum Pacific Advisory Board and its subcommittee and Member of the NZ Institute of Directors.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

莎拉·貝克博士是紐西蘭奧克蘭科技大學傳播學院的高級講師。她是AUT流行文化中心的共同創辦人，也是JMAD和AUT媒體觀察小組的成員。她是AUT學院的高級研究員和成員。她的廣泛研究興趣包括媒介流行文化中的電視和電影，專注於哥特、恐怖、性別和性取向。

阿曼達·拉瑟福德是紐西蘭奧克蘭科技大學傳播學研究所和語言與文化學院的講師。她是紐西蘭和澳大利亞哥特協會、澳大利亞和紐西蘭流行文化協會、國際哥特協會以及太平洋現代與古代語言協會的成員。她主要在媒介流行文化、哥特與恐怖以及童話故事領域發表作品。

理查德·帕馬塔陶是AUT大學的終身任職新聞學學者，並擔任傳播學研究所新聞系的課程負責人。他是傳播學研究所社交媒體、流行文化和政治報導研究小組的成員，以及贊助和媒體委員會的成員。他擁有奧克蘭大學的創意寫作碩士學位，並正在梅西大學攻讀詩歌博士學位。他還是奧克蘭博物館太平洋諮詢委員會及其子委員會的成員，以及紐西蘭董事學會的成員。

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