Embodiment and Horror Cinema

1. Front Matter

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2. Darkness into Light: An Introduction to the Four Tissue Types of Horror Cinema

   • Larrie Dudenhoeffer

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3. Elbows and Assholes: The Anal Work Ethic in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

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   Pages 25-47

4. Spectral Filtering: Smart Television on the “Silver Screen” in Gore Verbinski’s The Ring

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   Pages 49-74

5. The Red Scare: Marxism, Menstruation, and Stuart Rosenberg’s The Amityville Horror

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   Pages 75-98

6. Grindhouse Ago-Go: Sounding the Collagenous Commons of Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem

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   Pages 99-124

7. Spheres of Orientation: On Why Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm Series Is More Cerebral than One Might Think

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   Pages 125-152

8. The Alllusion: Intelligent Machines, Ethical Turns, and Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity

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   Pages 153-171

9. Monster Mishmash: Icon, Intertext, and Integument in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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   Pages 173-192

10. “Little Children, It is the Last Time”: The Ovolutionary Trees of Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist

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    Pages 193-213

11. Conclusion

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12. Back Matter

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Using the four tissue types (connective, epithelial, nervous, and muscular), Dudenhoeffer expands and complicates the subgenre of "body horror." Changing the emphasis from the contents of the film to the "organicity" of its visual and affective registers, he addresses the application of psychoanalysis, phenomenology, object-ontology, and cyborgism.

• Horror
• film studies
• cinema studies
• body theory
• affect
• embodiment
• subjectivity
• digitization
• digital media
• television
• new media
• modernity
• psychoanalysis
• phenomenology
• cognitivism
• hermeneutics
• Alfred Hitchcock
• children
• cinema
• film
• Psycho
• Salem

Larrie Dudenhoeffer is Associate Professor of English at Kennesaw State University, USA.

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