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Cabin in the Woods

Susanne Kord
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horror film
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781836244035
  • Dimensions: 135 x 190mm
  • Publication Date: 06 May 2025
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

The Cabin in the Woods (2012), directed by Drew Goddard and co-authored by Goddard and Joss Whedon of Buffy-fame, was famously described by co-author Whedon as his ‘loving hate letter’ to horror. Interviews with Whedon reveal that his struggles with modern cinematic horror are not merely emotional, but intensely philosophical.

This book is the first to read Cabin as a philosophical metatext that asks what horror offers audiences and why audiences accept. Like any good philosophy, the film offers no answers but raises questions: what ‘choices’ are possible in a pre-determined universe? How do we, the audience, see the victims of violence, and with what ethical consequences? And finally, the most fraught question of all: why do we keep looking?
About Susanne Kord
Susanne Kord is a professor at University College London. She is the author of ten books (four about film) and has received six major awards for her writing. Her most recent film book is Little Horrors: How Cinema’s Evil Children Play on Our Guilt (2016). She lives in London.

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