Masks in Horror Cinema

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Masks in Horror Cinema
Masks in Horror Cinema
Author : Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Language : English
Release Date : 15 October 2019
ISBN : 9781786834973
Pages : 285 pages
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Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors have a direct impact on mask-centric horror cinema: meanings, values and rituals associated with masks evolve and are updated in horror cinema to reflect new contexts, rendering the mask a persistent, meaningful and dynamic aspect of the genre’s iconography. This study debates horror cinema’s durability as a site for the potency of the mask’s broader symbolic power to be constantly re-explored, re-imagined and re-invented as an object of cross-cultural and ritual significance that existed long before the moving image culture of cinema.

Masks in Horror Cinema

Masks in Horror Cinema by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors have a direct impact on mask-centric

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