Dark Thoughts Philosophic Reflections on Cinematic Horror,9780810847927

Dark Thoughts Philosophic Reflections on Cinematic Horror

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ISBN13: 9780810847927
ISBN10: 0810847922
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-09-16
Publisher(s): Scarecrow Press
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Summary

This is a collection of highly engaging and provocative essays by top scholars in the increasingly interrelated fields of Philosophy, Film Studies, and Communication Arts that deal with the epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and genre dynamics of horror cinema past and present, reveals that our fascination with horror cinema, and the pleasure we take in it, is in the end simply a natural extension of a philosopher's inclination to wonder. Contributors include Curtis Bowman, No'l Carroll, Elizabeth Cowie, Angela Curran, Cynthia Freeland, Michael Grant, Matt Hills, Deborah Knight, George McKnight, Ken Mogg, Aaron Smuts, Robert C. Solomon, and J.P. Telotte.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments v
Introduction vii
Horror, Tragedy, and Pleasure
The General Theory of Horrific Appeal
Noël Carroll
1(9)
The Mastery of Hannibal Lecter
Daniel Shaw
10(15)
The Lived Nightmare: Trauma, Anxiety, and the Ethical Aesthetics of Horror
Elizabeth Cowie
25(22)
Aristotelian Reflections on Horror and Tragedy in An American Werewolf in London and The Sixth Sense
Angela Curran
47(18)
Horror's Philosopher-Auteurs
Heidegger, the Uncanny, and Jacques Tourneur's Horror Films
Curtis Bowman
65(19)
Hitchcock Made Only One Horror Film: Matters of Time, Space, Causality, and the Schopenhauerian Will
Ken Mogg
84(21)
What You Can't See Can Hurt You: Of Invisible and Hollow Men
J.P. Telotte
105(15)
Philosophical (Horror) Investigations
on the Question of the Horror Film
Michael Grant
120(18)
An Event-Based Definition of Art-Horror
Matt Hills
138(20)
Haunting the House from within: Disbelief Mitigation and Spatial Experience
Aaron Smuts
158(16)
Murder as Art/The Art of Murder: Aestheticizing Violence in Modern Cinematic Horror
Steven Jay Schneider
174(24)
Horror and Reality
The Slasher's Blood Lust
Cynthia A. Freeland
198(14)
American Psycho. Horror, Satire, Aesthetics, and Identification
Deborah Knight and George McKnight
212(18)
Real Horror Robert
C. Solomon (with reply from Daniel Shaw)
230(35)
Bibliography 265(16)
Index 281(10)
About the Contributors 291

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