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This 3 page paper reviews author Steffen Hantke’s consideration of what constitutes the horror genre. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Shudder As We Think Research Compiled for The
Paper Store, Inc. by 6/2011 Please In "Shudder As We
Think: Reflections on Horror and/or Criticism" author Steffen Hantke explores the horror genre as it exists in the contemporary horror film. The approaches, methodologies, and objectives which are utilized
by contemporary film makers, however, date much further back into history. Hantke analyzes the similarities and differences that interweave over time to make works something that actually has the
capability to exert not just an emotional, not just a psychological, but a bodily reaction from the audience that is perceivable in many cases by an outside observer.
Horror as a genre is expected to raise our awareness and to put us on edge. It depicts the macabre, the darker side of
human nature. It toys with us psychologically, depicting subjects which we are not always comfortable with. We find ourselves wanting to look away yet we are so captivated
by what is being depicted that this becomes an almost impossible feat. Well-crafted horror has the capability of quickening our heart
rate, of causing us "to shudder, to sweat, to squirm in our seats" (Hantke). Hantke traces this effect well back in time even into literature that on the
surface wasnt intended to be horror yet it had the same effect as horror. Hantke applauds, for example, philosopher Michel Foucaults "keen awareness of how precariously moments of deep
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