Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon (International Library of the Moving Image) - Hardcover

Xavier Aldana Reyes; Linnie Blake

 
9781784530259: Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon (International Library of the Moving Image)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1784530255 ISBN 13: 9781784530259
Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 2015

Synopsis

In recent years, the ways in which digital technologies have come to shape our experience of the world has been an immensely popular subject in the horror film genre. Contemporary horror cinema reflects and exploits the anxieties of our age in its increasing use of hand-held techniques and in its motifs of surveillance, found footage (fictional films that appear 'real': comprising discovered video recordings left behind by victims/protagonists) and 'digital haunting' (when ghosts inhabit digital technologies). This book offers an exploration of the digital horror film phenomenon, across different national cultures and historic periods, examining the sub-genres of CCTV horror, technological haunting, snuff films, found footage and torture porn. Digital horror, it demonstrates, is a product of the post 9/11 neo-liberal world view - characterised by security paranoia, constant surveillance and social alienation. Digital horror screens its subjects via the transnational technologies of our age, such as the camcorder and CCTV, and records them in secret footage that may, one day, be found.

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About the Author

Xavier Aldana Reyes is Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. Linnie Blake is Director of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, University of Manchester.

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Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1784530255
ISBN 13 
9781784530259
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
200
Editor
Xavier Aldana Reyes, Linnie Blake