The Disfigured Screen

'Visceral Screens argues eloquently for horror's centrality to essential debates in contemporary film and media studies theory. By framing horror beyond conventional notions of cautionary or anxious relations to media technologies, Allan Cameron presents a fascinating new account of horror as an 'intermediate' genre: between meanings encompassing bodies, images, and image-bodies.' Adam Lowenstein, University of Pittsburgh Horror cinema grants bodies and images a precarious hold on sense and order: from the zombie's gory disintegration to the shaky visuals of 'found footage' horror, and from the vampire's absent reflection to the spectacle of shattering glass in the Italian giallo. Addressing classic horror movies alongside popular and innovative contemporary works, Visceral Screens investigates how they have rendered the human form as a media artefact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects, chromatic shifts, glitches and audiovisual fragmentation. Conducting their own anatomies of the screen, cutting into the matter of cinema, horror films revel in the breakdown of frames, patterns and figures, undermining subjectivity and meaning. Allan Cameron is Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Television at the University of Auckland, New Zealand Cover image: Ana - Remix of Amer (2012), created by Ouananiche based on the feature film Amer (2009), directed by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, produced by Anonymes Films and Tobina Film. Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-1919-2 Barcode