Snuff : real death and screen media

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Foreword

David Kerekes (owner of Headpress and author of Killing For Culture)Introduction: The Cultural Mythology of the Snuff Movie, Past and Present

Neil Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK), Shaun Kimber (Bournemouth University, UK), Johnny Walker (Northumbria University, UK), and Thomas Joseph Watson (Northumbria University, UK)Part I

The Genesis and Persistence of Snuff: Cross Cultural Contexts and Critical Reactions

Chapter 1: Unfound Footage and Unfounded Rumours: The Manson Murders and the Persistence of Snuff

Mark Jones & Gerry Carlin (University of Wolverhampton, UK)Chapter 2: A Murder Mystery in Black and Blue: Astra Video and the Marketing of Snuff in the UK

Mark McKenna (University of Sunderland, UK)Chapter 3: From Snuff to the South: Transcultural Receptions of the Italian Cannibal Cycle

Xavier Mendik (University of Brighton, UK)and Nicolo Gallio (University of Bologna, Italy)Chapter 4: Animal Snuff: The Critical Reception of Weekend and Cannibal Holocaust

Simon Hobbs (University of Portsmouth, UK)Part II

Reel to Real? : Myths of Snuff in Production and Performance

Chapter 5: The Snuff Filmmaker in Realist Horror

Neil Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK)Chapter 6: Home Made: Faces of Death and Traces of Nostalgia in Recent Amateur Horror

Johnny Walker (Northumbria University, UK)Chapter 7: It Was All Real, All of It: Reflectionist Horror and the 'Snuffumentary'

Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)Chapter 8: Why Did They Film It? : Faux Snuff in Contemporary US Cinema

Shaun Kimber (Bournemouth University, UK) Chpater 9: Cinema as Snuff: Auteurist Meta-snuff and the Murderous Gaze from German Expressionism to Shadow of the Vampire

Linda Badley (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)Chapter 10: The Bunny Game: Live Art and Film Genre

Karolina Grushka (Aberystwyth University, UK)Part III

Snuff, Affect and Selfhood

Chapter 11: The Affective Reality of Snuff

Misha Kavka (University of Auckland, New Zealand)Chapter 12: Affect and the Ethics of Snuff in the Films of the New Extremism

Tina Kendall (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)Chapter 13: A View to a Kill: Perspectives on Pseudo-Snuff and Self

Steve Jones (Northumbria University, UK)Part IV

Snuff in the Twenty-first Century: Circulation, Consumption and Regulation

Chapter 14: Watching Snuff: Online Reactions to the '3 Guys 1 Hammer' Internet Shock Video

Iain Robert Smith (Roehampton University of London, UK)Chapter 15: Extreme Pornography and the Wider Politics of Snuff

Clarissa Smith (University of Sunderland, UK)Chapter 16: The Threat of Snuff

Julian Petley (Brunel University, UK)BibliographySelect filmographyIndex