Adam Lowenstein: 2 books
Shocking Representation
Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2005
In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju,...
Dreaming of Cinema
Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many worry film's capacity to record the real is fundamentally changing. Yet...