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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'.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: ‘Welcome to Your Worst Nightmare’
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Conclusion: ‘Will You Continue?’: Beyond ‘Torture Porn’
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Back Matter
Reviews
'This pioneering study bravely goes to unchartered territories in order to explain the label's implied porn-horror confluence and examine critically neglected subgenres.' - Dejan Ognjanovic, Rue Morgue
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Torture Porn
Book Subtitle: Popular Horror after Saw
Authors: Steve Jones
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137317124
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-31941-7Published: 09 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33995-2Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31712-4Published: 09 July 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 232
Topics: Film History, Screen Studies, Directing, Genre, Media Sociology, Media Studies