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Torture Porn: Popular Horror After Saw

Torture Porn: Popular Horror After Saw - Hardcover

by Steve Jones
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Availability:In StockContributor:Steve JonesPublish date:2013-07-09Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9780230319417ISBN-10:230319416UPC:9780230319417Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, Pornography, Media StudiesSize:8.50 x 5.60 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCKHGKPDE9
The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to popular horror and analyses key torture porn films, mapping out the broader conceptual and contextual concerns that shape the meanings of both 'torture' and 'porn'.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9780230319417ISBN-10:230319416UPC:9780230319417Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, Pornography, Media StudiesSize:8.50 x 5.60 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCKHGKPDE9
Steve Jones is Lecturer in Media at Northumbria University, UK. His research focuses primarily on the horror genre and topics of representation and gender, particularly on representations of sex and violence. He has published widely in international journals such as the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, Scope, Horror Studies, Animation and Sexualities. This is his first book.
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

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2013 Edition

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