Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11: Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation

by Aaron Michael Kerner

Book Overview

Saw, Hostel, The Devil's Rejects: this wave of horror movies has been classed under the disparaging label "torture porn." Since David Edelstein coined the term for a New York magazine article a few years after 9/11, many critics have speculated that these movies simply reflect iconic images, anxieties, and sadistic fantasies that have emerged from the War on Terror. In this timely new study, Aaron Kerner challenges that interpretation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813564034
• ISBN13: 9780813564036
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"