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[ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: SOME ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: Westview Press Pub Date: 1/1/2002 Binding: Paperback Pages: 320.

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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 336 p. Contains: Illustrations. Thinking Through Cinema.

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Stated first printing of first edition. Bound in original red cloth with spine lettered in black. Contents clean, binding sturdy and tight. Lacking dust jacket. Slightest wear to exterior binding.

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Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Thinking Through Cinema. Audience: General/trade.

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0813367026 Jacket condition: Good. Retired library book with usual library markings., else VG+. Horror is often dismissed as mass art or lowbrow entertainment that produces only short-term thrills. Horror films can be bloody, gory, and disturbing, prompting people to argue that they have bad moral effects, inciting viewers to imitate cinematic violence or desensitizing them to atrocities. In The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror, Cynthia A. Freeland seeks to counter both aesthetic disdain and moral condemnation by focusing on a select body of important and revealing films, demonstrating how the genre is capable of deep philosophical reflection about the existence and nature of evil— both human and cosmic. In exploring these films, the author argues against a purely psychoanalytic approach and opts for both feminist and philosophical understandings. She looks at what it is in these movies that serves to elicit specific reactions in viewers and why such responses as fear and disgust are ultimately pleasurable. The author is particularly interested in showing how gender figures into screen presentations of evil. The book is divided into three sections: "Mad Scientists and Monstrous Mothers, " which looks into the implications of male, rationalistic, scientific technology gone awry; "The Vampire's Seduction, " which explores the attraction of evil and the human ability {or inability) to distinguish active from passive, subject from object, and virtue from vice; and "Sublime Spectacles of Disaster, " which examines the human fascination with horror spectacle. This section concludes with a chapter on graphic horror films such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Written for both students and film enthusiasts, the book examines a wide array of films including: The Silence of the Lambs, Repulsion, Frankenstein, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Aliens, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Interview with the Vampire, Frenzy, The Shining, Eraserhead, Hellraiser, and many others. Cynthia A. Freeland is professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. 336 pages. Your order on its way to you by the next business day!

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AS NEW hardcover in VERY GOOD dust jacket, no marks in text, tight square spine.

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Ex-Public Library. FIRST PRINTING. Mylar cover over dustjacket. Pages edges show wear. Usual library markings-like library name. !

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(2081)Hardcover, 2000; Perfect!

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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 336 p. Contains: Illustrations. Thinking Through Cinema. Audience: General/trade.

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320pp. A book looking at appeal of horror films from a philosophist's perspective.

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Examines philosophical aspects of evil by looking at horror films from a feminist perspective.

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Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Thinking Through Cinema.

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