Masks in horror cinema : eyes without faces / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.

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Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra, 1974- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Horror studiesPublisher: Cardiff (Wales) : University of Wales Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781786834973
1786834979
9781786834980
1786834987

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Masks in horror cinema.DDC classification:

791.436164 23

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PN1995.9.H6

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Contents:

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Situating Masks and Horror Cinema; Part One: Masks, Horror and Cinema -- Towards Codification; 2. Masks and Horror in Literary and Performance Traditions and Early Cinema; 3. Masks in Horror Film before 1970; Part Two: Horror Film Masks from 1970 -- Case Studies; 4. Skin Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation; 5. Blank Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation; 6. Animal Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation; 7. Repurposed Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation

Part Three: Masks as Transformational Technologies -- Moving Forward by Looking Back8. Technological Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation; Conclusion; Endnotes; Bibliography; Back Cover

Summary: Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors have a direct impact on mask-centric horror cinema: meanings, values and rituals associated with masks evolve and are updated in horror cinema to reflect new contexts, rendering the mask a persistent, meaningful and dynamic aspect of the genre's iconography. This study debates horror cinema's durability as a site for the potency of the mask's broader symbolic power to be constantly re-explored, re-imagined and re-invented as an object of cross-cultural and ritual significance that existed long before the moving image culture of cinema.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors have a direct impact on mask-centric horror cinema: meanings, values and rituals associated with masks evolve and are updated in horror cinema to reflect new contexts, rendering the mask a persistent, meaningful and dynamic aspect of the genre's iconography. This study debates horror cinema's durability as a site for the potency of the mask's broader symbolic power to be constantly re-explored, re-imagined and re-invented as an object of cross-cultural and ritual significance that existed long before the moving image culture of cinema.

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Part Three: Masks as Transformational Technologies -- Moving Forward by Looking Back8. Technological Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation; Conclusion; Endnotes; Bibliography; Back Cover

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