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Snuff 2.0: Real Death Goes Hd Ready

Mark Astley

Mark Astley

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Snuff : Real Death and Screen Media

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Since the kidnap and filmed murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, in February 2002, the urban myth of the “snuff video,” where the death of a human being is staged primarily for the benefit of the unblinking eye...

The Affective Reality of Snuff

Misha Kavka

Misha Kavka

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Snuff : Real Death and Screen Media

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...I am a late-comer to snuff. That may sound like the start of a true-confessions memoir, but I mean it less as a personal revelation than a statement about the inherent temporality of the snuff film as a certain experience of extremist...

Watching Star Wars Alone

Will Brooker

Will Brooker is Director of Film Studies and Television at Kingston University, UK. He is the author of several books, including studies of Batman, Star Wars, Blade Runner, and Lewis Carroll. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Using the Force : Creativity, Community and Star Wars Fans

Continuum, 2002

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...The Emperor wants to control outer space, Yoda wants to explore inner space. That's the fundamental difference between the good and the bad sides of the force.The special edition of Star Wars: A New Hope, which was released for the film...

The Fan Betrayed

Will Brooker

Will Brooker is Director of Film Studies and Television at Kingston University, UK. He is the author of several books, including studies of Batman, Star Wars, Blade Runner, and Lewis Carroll. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Using the Force : Creativity, Community and Star Wars Fans

Continuum, 2002

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...After sixteen years with no new Star Wars films, the release of Episode I: The Phantom Menace was a major event for fans. After such intense anticipation, after such a long wait, it was perhaps inevitable that at least some of them would...

Star Wars Chicks

Will Brooker

Will Brooker is Director of Film Studies and Television at Kingston University, UK. He is the author of several books, including studies of Batman, Star Wars, Blade Runner, and Lewis Carroll. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Using the Force : Creativity, Community and Star Wars Fans

Continuum, 2002

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...The names roll out importantly, joining other incantations around the table: “Darth Vader … Chewbacca … Han Solo … Luke Skywalker… Death Star…” No story receives more attention from the boys or gives greater pleasure in the telling....

Animal Snuff

Simon Hobbs

Simon Hobbs

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Snuff : Real Death and Screen Media

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...This chapter reflects upon the use of actual violent death in fictional films, defining an alternative area of critical study that consolidates and elaborates upon the broader scholarship of genuine cinematic violence. That alternative area...

Theorizing Asian Cinema(s)

Anne T Ciecko

Anne T Ciecko

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Contemporary Asian Cinema : Popular Culture in a Global Frame

Berg, 2006

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...As illustrated in the introduction to this book, the characters of Hock in Forever Fever and Sameer and Pooja in Dil Chahta Hai represent moments and positions of spectatorial identification with the screen image. Identification occurs...

From Snuff to the South: The Global Reception of Cannibal Holocaust

Nicolò Gallio

Nicolò Gallio

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Xavier Mendik

Xavier Mendik

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Snuff : Real Death and Screen Media

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Introduction: Theatrical ambiguity and the Snuff Canon Beautiful, yet brutal. Repulsive and arguably racist. Avant-garde but ultimately objectionable. Much has been written about Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and its status...

Canon

Will Brooker

Will Brooker is Director of Film Studies and Television at Kingston University, UK. He is the author of several books, including studies of Batman, Star Wars, Blade Runner, and Lewis Carroll. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Using the Force : Creativity, Community and Star Wars Fans

Continuum, 2002

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...“Just what is Star Wars canon, and what is not?” asks the introduction to Stephen Sansweet's Star Wars Encyclopaedia. “The one sure answer: The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition—the three films themselves as executive-produced...

Fan Film

Will Brooker

Will Brooker is Director of Film Studies and Television at Kingston University, UK. He is the author of several books, including studies of Batman, Star Wars, Blade Runner, and Lewis Carroll. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Using the Force : Creativity, Community and Star Wars Fans

Continuum, 2002

Book chapter

...On one level, fan film is simply a branch of fan fiction and has a very similar relationship to the primary texts: a creative departure that stays within a recognizable framework, an experiment that sticks to accepted rules, a filling...