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Found Footage Horror Films
Author: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
language: en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date: 2014-05-08
As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies. Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. It examines the diverse prehistory beyond Man Bites Dog (1992) and Cannibal Holocaust (1980), paying attention to the safety films of the 1960s, the snuff-fictions of the 1970s, and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s in particular. It underscores the importance of The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007), and considers YouTube's popular rise in sparking the subgenre's recent renaissance.
Unseen Film Footage
Unseen Film Footage explores the hidden world of cinema by examining deleted scenes, alternate versions, and other discarded material. These forgotten moments often reveal fascinating insights into the filmmaking process, highlighting the creative decisions and sometimes contentious negotiations that shape our favorite movies. Did you know that some deleted scenes offer crucial character development, enriching the viewer's understanding? Or that studio interference can drastically alter a film's tone and message, showcasing the collaborative, and at times combative, nature of film production? The book unveils cinematic treasures using a structured approach. It begins by defining ""unseen footage"" and the reasons behind its exclusion, such as pacing, censorship, and audience reception. Subsequent sections delve into specific themes and genres, providing examples of how studio interference or cultural sensitivities have shaped films. By drawing upon sources like studio archives, director's commentaries, and audience reactions, the book provides a comprehensive look at the forces that shape the movies we love, making it a valuable resource for cinephiles and film students alike.
Found Footage Horror Films
This book adopts a cognitive theoretical framework in order to address the mental processes that are elicited and triggered by found footage horror films. Through analysis of key films, the book explores the effects that the diegetic camera technique used in such films can have on the cognition of viewers. It further examines the way in which mediated realism is constructed in the films in order to attempt to make audiences either (mis)read the footage as non-fiction, or more commonly to imagine that the footage is non-fiction. Films studied include The Blair Witch Project, Rec, Paranormal Activity, Exhibit A, Cloverfield, Man Bites Dog, The Last Horror Movie, Noroi: The Curse, Autohead and Zero Day This book will be of key interest to Film Studies scholars with research interests in horror and genre studies, cognitive studies of the moving image, and those with interests in narration, realism and mimesis. It is an essential read for students undertaking courses with a focus on film theory, particularly those interested specifically in horror films and cognitive film theory.