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Complete 6 pages APA formatted article: The Appeal of Violent Imagery in Horror Film and Images of Death.

Complete 6 pages APA formatted article: The Appeal of Violent Imagery in Horror Film and Images of Death. When we analyze the horror movies and their viewers in order to find the exact reason for the improved interest for this genre, we come to the finding that the appeal of the horror images, as opposed to the appeal of real death presentation, has increased tremendously, catching the attention of the movie viewers. People are more interested in the horror images than in the real-life death experience, injury or danger and these images provide the exact reason behind the popularity of horror movies. The same point is established in the article “Violence and the Psychophysiology in Horror Cinema” which quotes the note of Cantor and Oliver that “this genre, perhaps more than any other, provides abundant opportunity for viewers to experience fear in response to injury and danger, as one of the defining characteristics is the portrayal of victimization and death,” adding that “screen violence holds different appeals to different sets of viewers.” (Prince 246-247).&nbsp.

At the very outset of such a discussion on the great interest in violent imagery in horror films and the and their appeal along with the images of death, it is of primary consideration that over the ages there has been a steady but real decline in the death and the death representation in reality whereas there is an increased interest or ascent of the death imagery. “By the 1950s in America and England, and to a somewhat lesser degree in other Western countries, death had just about vanished from view.” (Goldberg 51). Appending to the view of Geoffrey Gorer who in his essay “The Pornography of Death” said, “While natural death became more and more smothered in prudery, violent death has played an ever-growing part in the fantasies offered to mass audiences…”&nbsp.

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