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Overview
Horror's longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Variously dubbed 'elevated horror' and 'post-horror, ' films such as The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, It Comes at Night, Get Out, The Invitation, Hereditary, Midsommar, A Ghost Story, and mother! represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has often earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. Post-Horror is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema.
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- ISBN-13: 9781474475884
- ISBN-10: 1474475884
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publish Date: February 2021
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.26 pounds
- Page Count: 280
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