The Social Function of Horror Cinema

Beyond its allegorical value, the social function of horror lies in the very nature of the sensory experience it offers.

The Social Function of Horror Cinema

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Horror cinema has never been a mere mechanism of dread, reducible to its jump scares or its taste for the macabre. To question its social function requires going beyond aesthetic analysis to observe how this unique genre captures, synthesizes, and reproduces the invisible tensions that run through an era. Through the figuration of our hauntings, horror films act as a mode of symbolic mediation, a distorting prism capable of making intelligible what the social body tends to repress or silence.

In 1997, Michael Haneke articulated one of

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