Contemporary Approaches to Film and Medi Seeing Is Hearing Is Believing: Sensory Horror and Assistive Technologies, (Paperback)

<p> <b>How contradictory sensory experiences of horror films appeal to audiences.</b> </p><p>Diffrient's strikingly original work mounts an intersensorial critique of the horror film, bringing disability studies, affect theory, and phenomenology together to evaluate how assistive technologies, such as audio description and subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences, become sites for interrogating embodied experiences of cinematic spectatorship. Exploring a broad range of case studies, from <i>Carnival of Souls</i> (1962) to <i>Exorcist II: The Heretic</i> (1977) and<i> Scream VI </i>(2023), this book questions how audiovisual features unique to the motion picture medium implicate perceptions of touch, taste, and smell and serve as a principal way for people to establish belief in otherwise unbelievable phenomena. Longtime horror fans as well as newcomers to the genre will find much to savor in this eye-opening--and ear-opening--intervention in contemporary media culture.</p>

• Contemporary Approaches to Film and Medi Seeing Is Hearing Is Believing: Sensory Horror and Assistive Technologies, (Paperback)
• Author: David Scott Diffrient
• ISBN: 9780814351888
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-11-03
• Page Count: 346