Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation -- David Church

<p>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 <i>The Babadook</i>, <i>It Follows</i>, <i>The Witch</i>, <i>It Comes at Night</i>, <i>Get Out</i>, <i>The Invitation</i>, <i>Hereditary</i>, <i>Midsommar</i>, <i>A Ghost Story</i>, and <i>mother!</i> represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has often earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. <i>Post-Horror</i> is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> David Church<br><b>Publisher:</b> Edinburgh University Press<br><b>Published:</b> 11/30/2022<br><b>Pages:</b> 280<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.88lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.59d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781474475891