Dark thoughts: philosophic reflections on cinematic horror
Steven Jay Schneider &Daniel Shaw (eds.)
Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press (2003) Copy BIBTEX
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This is a collection of highly engaging and provocative essays by top scholars in the increasingly interrelated fields of Philosophy, Film Studies, and Communication Arts that deal with the epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and ...Author's Profile
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Horror's philosophic auteurs: Heidegger, the uncanny, and Jacques tourneur's horror films.Curtis Bowman
Murder as art/the art of murder: Aestheticizing violence in modern cinematic horror.Steven Jay Schneider
The lived nightmare: Trauma, anxiety, and the ethical aesthetics of horror. (pages 25--46)Elizabeth Cowie
Aristotelian reflections on horror and tragedy in an american werewolf in London and the sixth sense. (pages 47--64)Angela Curran
Hitchcock made only one horror film: Matters of time, space, causality, and the Schopenhauerian will. (pages 84)Ken Mogg
Haunting the house from within: Disbelief, mitigation, and spatial experience. (pages 158--173)Aaron Smuts
American psycho: Horror, satire, aesthetics, and identification. (pages 212--229)Deborah Knight &George McKnight
Dallas and critical spectatorship, and a manuscript in progress, Aristotle on Essence and Human Nature. Cynthia A. Freeland is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Houston. She has published widely on topics in ancient philosophy and aesthetics, is the. [REVIEW] (pages 291)Matt Hills,Deborah Knight &George McKnight
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