Jun. 3rd, 2009

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I've been reading lots of articles on horror film criticism which I am not going to exhaustively list here, thus the somewhat low total number of books read this month, but I do want to mention this book which just sounds all sorts of fascinating to me:
The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience by Jennifer M. Barker
Product Description
The Tactile Eye expands on phenomenological analysis and film theory in its accessible and beautifully written exploration of the visceral connection between
films and their viewers. Jennifer M. Barker argues that the experience of cinema can be understood as deeply tactile--a sensuous exchange between film
and viewer that goes beyond the visual and aural, gets beneath the skin, and reverberates in the body. Barker combines analysis of embodiment and phenomenological
film theory to provide an expansive description of cinematic tactility.

1. The Skylark by Peter Straub (2009) [scanned myself]
Read for review.

2. Philosophy in the Twilight Zone edited by Noel Carroll and Lester H. Hunt (2009) [scanned myself]
Read for review.

3. Various stories from Bound for Evil edited by Tom English (2008) [scanned myself]
A book about evil books! I *love* this book, and I think I love Tom English for producing it, even though I think he must indeed be a Tom O'Bedlam to have done it (it's quite the tome of doom and could effectively if not easily be used as a blunt weapon).
More about Bound for Evil here
http://kestrell.livejournal.com/504233.html

4. Midnight Movies by J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum (1991) [Bookshare.org]
The main focus is The Rocky Horror Picture Show, although this is also used to introduce a cultural history of the midnight movie which includes a lot of interesting material; it also contained way more discussion of Waters and Lynch than I was up for, but it's a very browse-worthy book.
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