{"product_id":"post-internet-horror-film","title":"Post-Internet Horror Film","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of how contemporary horror films focusing on the internet engage with society’s material, functional and ideological reorientation to new digital realities, this book shows how subjects can resist the age of data capitalism and the authority of the algorithm. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUpending the notion that the horror genre – arguably \u003ci\u003ethe \u003c\/i\u003eseismograph of cultural unease – has remained unresponsive to the unprecedented dangers of the digital age, \u003ci\u003eThe Post-Internet Horror Film\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how the genre tackles the (un)representability of ubiquitous computing. With consideration of how ‘smart’ technologies and interconnectedness of all computing devises via the web destabilise conceptions of the internet, Max Jokschus examines to what extent contemporary internet horror films contribute to fostering awareness of the internet’s political economy – and how they, indeed, obscure it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDetailing a new phenomenon that will only become more urgent with time, and calling upon data-capitalism criticism, Jokschus provides a systemic analysis of this emerging genre, its semiotics, affects and ideologies. Breaking the genre down into first and second-wave internet horror cycles and covering themes ‘cyberphobia’, ‘datanoia’ and the dark web, the book makes case studies of such films as \u003ci\u003eStrangeland\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003ePulse \u003c\/i\u003e(2001), \u003ci\u003eThe Lawnmower Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), \u003ci\u003eChatroom\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003eCyberbully\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eGirl House\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), Bedeviled (2016), \u003ci\u003eChild’s Play\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), \u003ci\u003eCountdown\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eSelfie From Hell\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), and \u003ci\u003eDark Web: Descent into Hell\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). Offering new ways to think, write and teach about the horror film, as well as modelling how critical internet studies and film studies can expand each other’s insights, \u003ci\u003eThe Post-Internet Horror Film\u003c\/i\u003e explores a new kind of scary but also avenues for user agency and resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57322835706200,"sku":"9781350611160","price":97.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/post-internet-horror-film","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}