Horrality: The Textuality of the Contemporary Horror Film
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"The Thing (1982) took to its logical limit the Body-horror that was initiated in Alien (1979) with that infamous scene where the alien bursts out of a crew member's stomach."-- "Horrality: The Textuality of the Contemporary Horror Film" (1983) by Philip Brophy "Another word is invented. More pretentious in tone and more theoretical in intention: ‘Horrality’ -horror, textuality, morality, hilarity. In the same way that Fangoria celebrates the re-birth of the Horror genre, ‘Horrality’ celebrates the precise nature of what constitutes the films of this re-birth as texts. As neologisms, both words do not so much ‘mean’ something as they do describe a specific historical juncture, a cultural phase that is as fixed as the semantic accuracy of the words."-- "Horrality: The Textuality of the Contemporary Horror Film" (1983) by Philip Brophy |
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"Horrality: The Textuality of the Contemporary Horror Film" (1983) is an essay by Philip Brophy which coined the term The term body horror. He coined this term to describe an emerging subgenre which occurred during a short golden period for contemporary horror film.
The essay was first published in the Spring 1983 issue of the Australian journal Art & Text.
It was reprinted (with preface) in Screen UK, Vol.27 Nos.1/2, 1986.
The essay is included in The Horror Reader (2000) is a book by Ken Gelder.
