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标题：Traumatic Horror Beyond the Edge: It Follows and Get Out
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作者：Milanović, Marijana ; Stanojević, Ivan ; Tarja Laine 等
期刊名称：Film-Philosophy
印刷版ISSN：1466-4615
电子版ISSN：1466-4615
出版年度：2019
卷号：23
期号：3
页码：282-302
DOI：10.3366/film.2019.0117
出版社：Film-philosophy
摘要：Within cinematic horror, trauma as a concept has often been used as an allegorical strategy to work through collective anxieties. This article on It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) and Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017) strikes another note. It argues that, by their aesthetic qualities, both films are rendered traumatic in their affective orientation, both toward the cinematic world and toward the spectator. It analyses the two films through trauma as an affective-aesthetic strategy that puts emphasis on the edge of the frame as well as on the offscreen space. This strategy evokes a sinister mood that exists independently of the protagonists, allowing us to meaningfully feel the effects of their trauma as we engage with the film. Especially the use of the offscreen space in both films contributes to the “traumatic mood” of the films, but it also functions to immerse the spectator in the invisible filmic world. In this way, It Follows and Get Out embody trauma as a denial of relief from dread, which we both recognize in the characters' experience, and feel in our own bodies through the effective creation of ever-present threat.
关键词：It Follows;Get Out;trauma;horror film;offscreen space