Naslov
David Huckvale (2020) Terrors of the Flesh: The Philosophy of Body Horror in Film

Autori
Šekrst, Kristina

Izvornik
Film-philosophy (1466-4615) 26 (2022), 2; 280-283

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, prikaz, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
body horror ; philosophy of body horror ; horror film

Sažetak
Using examples from classical literature, with Faust being the ultimate horror of unending physical torment, Huckvale draws upon Marie Guillot to argue that what we know best of all is the body since it is our sole instrument for understanding the world (p. 13). Various depictions of bodily torment in films serve to illustrate our angst when said instrument malfunctions or is destroyed, as each chapter of Huckvale’s book engages with various possible scenarios for malfunction and/or annihilation: copulation, generation, digestion, mutilation, infection, mutation, disintegration, extinction – all ways to deform, change, or annihilate the corporeal cage in which a human is imprisoned.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija, Filmska umjetnost (filmske, elektroničke i medijske umjetnosti pokretnih slika)

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