Hardcore horror cinema in the 21st century : production, marketing and consumption /
The first of its kind, this study examines the exemplars of hardcore horror. The author begins with a definition and critical overview of this marginalized subgenre before exploring its key aesthetic convention, the pursuit of realist horror. Production practices, exhibition and marketing strategies...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: beyond videodrome: an archaeology of 21st-century hardcore horror
- "Not like how Hollywood shows us": a definition of hardcore horror in the 21st century
- The genealogy of extremity in North American film
- Global currents of extreme horror
- "A malignant, seething ": the films of hardcore horror in the 21st century
- The realist aesthetic of hardcore horror
- "These movies have brought me many problems": performance and the traumatized self within hardcore horror
- Hardcore horror production: an interview with amateur porn star killer director Shane Ryan
- "I'll pay you in cash to slip this thread into the purge": navigating fandom in hardcore horror
- Conclusion: "it has no redeeming features whatsoever that I could discern": the cultural value of hardcore horror.