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Hanich looks at fear at the movies – its aesthetics, its experience and its pleasures--in this thought-provoking study. Looking at over 150 different films in

Why can fear be pleasurable? Why do we sometimes enjoy an emotion we otherwise desperately wish to avoid? And why are the movies the predominant place for this

The movie theater has always been a place where people come together to share powerful emotional experiences, from the fear generated by horror films and the an

This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s – abjection, disgust, cogn

Films evoke broad moods and cue particular emotions that can be broadly shared as well as individually experienced. Although the experience of emotion is centra