Heavy Metal at the Movies

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  • ISBN 9781138571594
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jan 2019
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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The chapters collected in this volume shed light on the areas of interaction between film studies and heavy metal research, exploring how the audio-visual medium of film relates to, builds on and shapes metal culture. At one end of the spectrum, metal music serves as a form of ambient background in horror films that creates an intense and somewhat threatening atmosphere; at the other end, the high level of performativity attached to the metal spectacle is emphasized. Alongside these tendencies, the recent and ongoing wave of metal documentaries has taken off, relying on either satire or hagiography.

Gerd Bayer is Professor of English (and Akademischer Direktor) at the University of Erlangen (Germany), where he teaches English literature and culture. The author of two monographs on British literature, most recently of Novel Horizons (2015), he has edited a number of books, including Heavy Metal Music in Britain (Ashgate, 2009; pbk. Routledge, 2016) and Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century (2015, with Oleksandr Kobrynskyy).