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A review by cmcrockford
The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart by Noel Carroll
challenging
dark
funny
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Witty and compelling even if I think Carroll's POV in retrospect is limited sometimes by his scope (his crack about the fear of female sexuality in Cronenberg now seems ridiculous in the greater context of the filmmaker's "body" of work) and rather stringent rules for what is/isn't horror, however helpful they may be. Relevant reading especially during the current horror boom (read my work under C.M. Crockford btw).