Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11: Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation by Aaron Michael Kerner

Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11: Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation

War Culture

Aaron Michael Kerner

268 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history horror dark informative slow-paced
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Saw, Hostel, The Devil’s Rejects: this wave of horror movies has been classed under the disparaging label “torture porn.” Since David Edelstein coined the term for a New York magazine article a few years after 9/11, many critics have speculated th...

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