Snuff : real death and screen media

"Brings together scholars from film and media studies for the definitive academic study of 'real death' on screen - from horror cinema, to pornography, to online 'shock videos'"--

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Other Authors: Jackson, Neil (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Kimber, Shaun (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Walker, Johnny (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Watson, Thomas J. (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic , 2016
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Online Access:Cover
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: Snuff
Rezensiert in: Ethologien der Drastik
Author Notes:edited by Neil Jackson, Shaun Kimber, Johnny Walker, and Thomas Joseph Watson
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note:Foreword
  • David Kerekes (owner of Headpress and author of Killing For Culture)Introduction: The Cultural Mythology of the Snuff Movie, Past and Present
  • Neil Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK), Shaun Kimber (Bournemouth University, UK), Johnny Walker (Northumbria University, UK), and Thomas Joseph Watson (Northumbria University, UK)Part I - The Genesis and Persistence of Snuff: Cross Cultural Contexts and Critical Reactions
  • Chapter 1: Unfound Footage and Unfounded Rumours: The Manson Murders and the Persistence of Snuff
  • Mark Jones & Gerry Carlin (University of Wolverhampton, UK)Chapter 2: A Murder Mystery in Black and Blue: Astra Video and the Marketing of Snuff in the UK
  • Mark McKenna (University of Sunderland, UK)Chapter 3: From Snuff to the South: Transcultural Receptions of the Italian Cannibal Cycle
  • Xavier Mendik (University of Brighton, UK)and Nicolo Gallio (University of Bologna, Italy)Chapter 4: Animal Snuff: The Critical Reception of Weekend and Cannibal Holocaust
  • Simon Hobbs (University of Portsmouth, UK)Part II - Reel to Real? : Myths of Snuff in Production and Performance
  • Chapter 5: The Snuff Filmmaker in Realist Horror
  • Neil Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK)Chapter 6: Home Made: Faces of Death and Traces of Nostalgia in Recent Amateur Horror
  • Johnny Walker (Northumbria University, UK)Chapter 7: It Was All Real, All of It: Reflectionist Horror and the 'Snuffumentary'
  • Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)Chapter 8: Why Did They Film It? : Faux Snuff in Contemporary US Cinema
  • Shaun Kimber (Bournemouth University, UK) Chpater 9: Cinema as Snuff: Auteurist Meta-snuff and the Murderous Gaze from German Expressionism to Shadow of the Vampire
  • Linda Badley (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)Chapter 10: The Bunny Game: Live Art and Film Genre
  • Karolina Grushka (Aberystwyth University, UK)Part III - Snuff, Affect and Selfhood
  • Chapter 11: The Affective Reality of Snuff
  • Misha Kavka (University of Auckland, New Zealand)Chapter 12: Affect and the Ethics of Snuff in the Films of the New Extremism
  • Tina Kendall (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)Chapter 13: A View to a Kill: Perspectives on Pseudo-Snuff and Self
  • Steve Jones (Northumbria University, UK)Part IV - Snuff in the Twenty-first Century: Circulation, Consumption and Regulation
  • Chapter 14: Watching Snuff: Online Reactions to the '3 Guys 1 Hammer' Internet Shock Video
  • Iain Robert Smith (Roehampton University of London, UK)Chapter 15: Extreme Pornography and the Wider Politics of Snuff
  • Clarissa Smith (University of Sunderland, UK)Chapter 16: The Threat of Snuff
  • Julian Petley (Brunel University, UK)BibliographySelect filmographyIndex.

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