Free Download Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez, "Baroque Aesthetics in Contemporary American Horror"
English | ISBN: 3030882500 | 2021 | 187 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book traces a trend that has emerged in recent years within the modern panorama of American horror film and television, the concurrent―and often overwhelming―use of multiple stock characters, themes and tropes taken from classics of the genre. American Horror Story, Insidious and The Conjuring are examples of a filmic tendency to address a series of topics and themes so vast that at first glance each taken separately would seem to suffice for individual films or shows. This book explores this trend in its visible connections with American Horror, but also with cultural and artistic movements from outside the US, namely Baroque art and architecture, Asian Horror, and European Horror. It analyzes how these hybrid products are constructed and discusses the socio-political issues that they raise. The repeated and excessive barrage of images, tropes and scenarios from distinct subgenres of iconic horror films come together to make up an aesthetic that is referred to in this book as