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Torture Porn

Popular Horror after Saw

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Steve Jones

    1. Northumbria University, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: ‘Welcome to Your Worst Nightmare’

    1. Introduction: ‘Welcome to Your Worst Nightmare’

      • Steve Jones
      Pages 1-10

  6. Conclusion: ‘Will You Continue?’: Beyond ‘Torture Porn’

    1. Conclusion: ‘Will You Continue?’: Beyond ‘Torture Porn’

      • Steve Jones
      Pages 187-192

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 193-232
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About this book

The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to popular horror and analyses key torture porn films, mapping out the broader conceptual and contextual concerns that shape the meanings of both 'torture' and 'porn'.

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'This pioneering study bravely goes to unchartered territories in order to explain the label's implied porn-horror confluence and examine critically neglected subgenres.' - Dejan Ognjanovic, Rue Morgue

Authors and Affiliations

  • Northumbria University, UK

    Steve Jones

About the author

Steve Jones is Lecturer in Media at Northumbria University, UK. His research focuses primarily on the horror genre and topics of representation and gender, particularly on representations of sex and violence. He has published widely in international journals such as the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, Scope, Horror Studies, Animation and Sexualities. This is his first book.

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