And so ... for some blood is simply paint (Godard/Harris), and horror
not a genre but a marketing label (Harris again), while for others
(Matturi) it is a convenient way for viewers to categorize films and
their experience of them (reception and/or cultural studies). But what
about the films themselves? However intriguing the kind of
deconstructionist genre theory is that e.g. Rick Altman advocates, I'm
left with the feeling that ... there is such a thing as the horror film.
Henry
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