Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005 et 2007), le torture-porn et le cinéma d’exploitation : l’être humain à l’ère de sa reproductibilité technique

Produced by Quentin Tarantino, the first two installments of Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005, 2007) belong to a subgenre of horror that emerged in the early 2000s, the torture porn, and are heavily influenced by exploitation films. The system depicted in Hostel (you pay to torture and kill someone) is at the...

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Main Author: Pierre Jailloux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2016-07-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7832