Why do humans feel the need to scream at horror films? In Why Horror Seduces, author Matthias Clasen looks to evolutionary social science to show how the horror genre is a product of human nature. Cover -- Why Horror Seduces -- Copyright -- Contents...
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Why do humans feel the need to scream at horror films? In Why Horror Seduces, author Matthias Clasen looks to evolutionary social science to show how the horror genre is a product of human nature. Cover -- Why Horror Seduces -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Horror, Fear, and Evolution -- Part 1: An Evolutionary Theory of Horror -- 1. Sizing Up the Beast: What Horror Is, and How It Is Studied -- 2. How Horror Works, I: The Evolution and Stimulation of Negative Emotion -- 3. How Horror Works, II: Spooky Monsters, Scary Scenarios, and Terrified Characters -- 4. Fear for Your Life: The Appeals, Functions, and Effects of Horror -- Part 2: Evolutionary Perspectives on American Horror -- 5. Monsters Everywhere: A Very Brief Overview of American Horror -- 6. Vampire Apocalypse: I Am Legend (1954) -- 7. Trust No One: Rosemary's Baby (1967) -- 8. Fight the Dead, Fear the Living: Night of the Living Dead (1968) -- 9. Never Go Swimming Again: Jaws (1975) -- 10. Haunted Houses, Haunted Minds: The Shining (1977) -- 11. Hack n' Slash: Halloween (1978) -- 12. Lost and Hunted in Bad Woods: The Blair Witch Project (1999) -- Part 3: Future Evolutions in Horror Entertainment and Horror Research -- 13. The Future of Horror -- References -- Index.
