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Theatricality in the Horror Film: A Brief Study on the Dark Pleasures of Screen Artifice

Theatricality in the Horror Film: A Brief Study on the Dark Pleasures of Screen Artifice

Hardcover

Series: Anthem Impact

Film StudiesTheater History

ISBN10: 1785271288
ISBN13: 9781785271281
Publisher: Anthem Pr
Published: Oct 28 2019
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

As is well known, the horror film generally presents a situation where normality is threatened by a monster. From this premise, 'Theatricality in the Horror Film' argues that scary movies often create their terrifying effects stylistically and structurally through a radical break with the realism of normality in the form of monstrous theatricality.

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