{"product_id":"post-horror-art-genre-and-cultural-elevation-9781474475891","title":"Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation","description":"\u003cp\u003eHorror's longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Variously dubbed 'elevated horror' and 'post-horror, ' films such as \u003ci\u003eThe Babadook\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIt Follows\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Witch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIt Comes at Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGet Out\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Invitation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHereditary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMidsommar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Ghost Story\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003emother!\u003c\/i\u003e represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has often earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. \u003ci\u003ePost-Horror\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Church is a film and media scholar specializing in genre studies, taste cultures, and histories of film circulation. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eGrindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video, and Exploitation Film Fandom\u003c\/i\u003e (EUP, 2015), \u003ci\u003eDisposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2016), and \u003ci\u003eMortal Kombat: Games of Death\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Michigan Press, 2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50453400355090,"sku":"9781474475891","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_34c86f3d-0837-4cbc-ad09-625eab58bb1e.jpg?v=1729845577","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/post-horror-art-genre-and-cultural-elevation-9781474475891","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}