Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality

by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

As the horror subgenre du jour, 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.

Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786470771
• ISBN13: 9780786470778
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher