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Deformed and Destructive Beings: The Purpose of Horror Films
by George Ochoa
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- ISBN 10
- 0786463074
- ISBN 13
- 9780786463077
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Paperback / softback. New. Why are audiences drawn to horror films? Previous answers to that question have included everything from a need to experience fear to a hunger for psychotherapy. This critical text proposes that the horror filmâs primary purpose is to present monsters, best understood as deformed and destructive beings. These monsters satisfy the audienceâs desire to know these beings, in particular those beings too fantastic and dangerous to know in real life. The text illuminates many aspects of the horror film genre, including epistemology, ethics, evaluation, history, monster taxonomy, and filmmaking techniques.
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- Title
- Deformed and Destructive Beings: The Purpose of Horror Films
- Author
- George Ochoa
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0786463074
- ISBN 13
- 9780786463077
- Publisher
- Mcfarland
- Place of Publication
- Jefferson:
- This edition first published
- 2011-03
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