Introduction: A Genreless Horror

Horror has historically been mired in the conceptual swamp of negative affect. Because its basal meaning refers to ‘a painful emotion compounded of loathing and fear’ (Oxford English Dictionary, 2007), the term has produced a circular scholarship that approaches its definition through spectator, vie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brinkema, Eugenie Alexandra
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Sage Publications 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100974
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