Deleuze and Horror Film

Powell begins with the firm belief that both art-house cinema and horror present valid fields for analysis, something that may be less controversial now that popular culture has made such well-traveled inroads into the hermetic world of academia. [...]her analyses of Alien: Resurrection (1997), Hellraiser (1987), and Videodrome (1983) contrast the conservative impetus of the genre (the return to "wholeness" and normalcy) with the open becoming of the Deleuzian schizo, even as "their affective extremity plunges the viewer into an intensive maelstrom that cracks molar frames" (83). The book includes helpful tools for readers; in addition to the glossary, there is a filmography and a comprehensive bibliography of both film and theoretical texts as well as an index slanted toward the theory and its concepts. K. A. LAITY K. A. LAITY is Assistant Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty of the Women's Studies Program at the College of Saint Rose.