{"product_id":"found-footage-horror-films-fear-and-the-appearance-of-reality-paperback-1","title":"Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexandra Heller-Nicholas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As the horror subgenre \u003ci\u003edu jour\u003c\/i\u003e, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eFound Footage Horror Films\u003c\/i\u003e explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. It examines the diverse prehistory beyond \u003ci\u003eMan Bites Dog\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) and \u003ci\u003eCannibal Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), paying attention to the safety films of the 1960s, the snuff-fictions of the 1970s, and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s in particular. It underscores the importance of \u003ci\u003eThe Blair Witch Project\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and \u003ci\u003eParanormal Activity\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and considers YouTube's popular rise in sparking the subgenre's recent renaissance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexandra Heller-Nicholas\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning Australian film critic, author and academic who has written eight books on cult, horror and exploitation cinema with an emphasis on gender politics. She is a research fellow at RMIT University and an adjunct professor at Deakin University, both in Melbourne, Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 08, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45837599506629,"sku":"9780786470778","price":53.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/O_g8UhWnV79780786470778_cc426231-5fa5-4c5d-8828-b20c5a36e7b1.webp?v=1771281836","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/found-footage-horror-films-fear-and-the-appearance-of-reality-paperback-1","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}