The Elusive Killer in Didactic Cinema: Conceptualizing Munch-ian Art and Adorno’s Negative Dialectics in Horror
By connecting Theodor Adorno’s negative dialectics to Edvard Munch’s concepts of artistic form, this study demonstrates the horror aesthetic in cinematic narrative structures that culminate toward discomforting endings. Negative dialectics is applicable as a cinema didactic via magnification of difficulty through narrative endings that depict elusive villains.
Authors
- Brent Yergensen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4834-8175)
Institutions
- The University of Texas at Tyler (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Canadian Review of American Studies
- Published
- 2024-08-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3138/cras-2024-002
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Cinema and Media Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.26