Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us
Bogutskaya sorts horror by dread, disgust, paranoia and grief rather than subgenre, arguing the form handles what a culture cannot otherwise say aloud.
Bogutskaya organises horror by the emotions it produces rather than by subgenre, working through dread, disgust, paranoia and grief in turn. Her argument is that the form has been consistently underrated as a way of processing what a culture cannot say directly, and that the critical condescension says more about critics than about the films.
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Tyler Cowen
A fun read about the importance of horror movies in contemporary culture, and a lament that we underrate them.
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