This book argues that dominant psychoanalytic approaches to horror filmsneglect the aesthetics of horror. Yet cinematic devices such as mise en scneediting and ... » 

This book argues that dominant psychoanalytic approaches to horror filmsneglect the aesthetics of horror. Yet cinematic devices such as mise en scneediting and sound are central to the viewers visceral fear and arousal.Using Deleuzes work on art and film Anna Powell argues that film viewing is aform of altered consciousness and the experience of viewing horror film anembodied event.The book begins with a critical introduction to the key terms in Deleuzianphilosophy and aesthetics. These include subjectivitybecoming the bodywithout organs molecularity timeduration affect movementrhythm spaceanomaly and schizoanalysis.Themes such as insanity sensory response to film the subjectobjectfractured time the body and cinematography are explored in horror films suchas Jacobs Ladder Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Psycho Silence of the Lambs TheFly A Nightmare on Elm Street Alien Resurrection The Others The ShiningInterview with the Vampire Bram Stokers Dracula and Nosferatu. «