Spectatorship, embodiment and physicality in the contemporary mutilation film /

"Focusing on the representation of mutilation on the screen and the physical responses this evokes - what the author defines as 'physical spectatorship' - this book is organised around the study of a series of dynamic engagements that reconfigure the film-viewer relationship; these in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wilson, Laura, 1984- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Subjects:	Splatter films > History and criticism. Violence in motion pictures. Motion picture audiences. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Splatter films.

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List of FiguresIntroduction 1. Embodied Voyeurism 2. Mutilation as Spectacle 3. Representing the Unrepresentable: Self-Harm as Affect 4. Extreme Frequencies 5. The Gut Conclusion Bibliography Filmography Index.