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1. Books, bodies, beliefs: Introducing a genre that needs no Introduction -- 2. Heads will roll, bodies will shake, souls will shatter: Horror film's formative stages and physical changes -- 3. Corporeality, materiality, mortality: The horror film as "body genre" -- 4. Going deep, sticking to the surface: Bad deaths and wet bodies -- 5. Sliced eyeballs and severed ears: On (not) seeing and (not) hearing horror films -- 6. Dead, but still breathing: The problem of postmortem movement in horror films -- 7. Smelling like a slaughterhouse: Cinematic olfactics and the stench of horror -- 8. Shitty, slimy, smelly, smiley: dirty spaces, funny faces, and the textural pleasures of "laughably bad" texts -- 9. Spooky encounters of the humorously disgusting kind: Clutching hands and hopping corpses, from Hollywood to Hong Kong -- Coda. Preparing to be unprepared: Horror film's predictable unpredictability -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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9781496848017 electronic book |
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1496848012 electronic book |
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9781496847980 electronic book |
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1496847989 electronic book |
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9781496848000 electronic book |
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1496848004 electronic book |
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9781496847997 electronic book |
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1496847997 electronic book |
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9781496847966 hardcover |
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9781496847973 trade paperback |
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