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- Title
Found-Footage Florror and the Frame's Undoing.
- Authors
SAYAD, CECILIA
- Abstract
This article finds in the found-footage horror cycle an alternative way of understanding the relationship between horror films and reality, which is usually discussed in terms of allegory. I propose the investigation of framing, considered both figuratively (framing the film as documentary) and stylistically (the framing in handheld cameras and in static long takes), as a device that playfully destabilizes the separation between the film and the surrounding world. The article's main case study is the Paranormal Activity franchise, but examples are drawn from a variety of films.
- Subjects
HORROR films; ALLEGORY in motion pictures; CAMERAS; DOCUMENTARY films; FRAMING (Cinematography)
- Publication
Cinema Journal, 2016, Vol 55, Issue 2, p43
- ISSN
0009-7101
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1353/cj.2016.0003