Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror PSYCHOLOGY / Creative Ability

Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror PSYCHOLOGY / Creative AbilityThis study traces a the dark, sensorial epistemologies emerging from intersections of documentary and horror cinema. From the ineffable subjects of horror documentaries and pseudo documentaries, to the obsessive chroniclers of mockumentary, fake found footage, and screenlife horror cinema, the films examined here express a generalized millennial and 21st century archival anxiety around an unsettled and unsettling hypermediated reality.

the essays included here are sophisticated and richly analytic

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material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957

This book explores how British filmmakers of the 2000s engaged with the themes of love

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In interrogating how activists and community workers conceptualise Islamophobia and what this means for practices on the ground

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undertakes analyses of Catherine Deneuve's status as one of the world's most celebrated French actresses

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rightly insisting that rather than domesticating images for the tyranny of the word