Snuff real death and screen media / edited by Neil Jackson, Shaun Kimber, Johnny Walker, and Thomas Joseph Watson.

Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Descriptionxvi, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects
Death in motion pictures.
Snuff films.
Death in mass media.
Mortality in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--United States. --History and criticism.

Other author/creatorJackson, Neil, 1968-
Other author/creatorKimber, Shaun.
Other author/creatorWalker, Johnny, 1987-
Other author/creatorWatson, Thomas Joseph, 1987-
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.
Abstract "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'"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015025730
ISBN9781628921120 (paperback)
ISBN9781628921144 (hardback)

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