Description:
This study traces a the dark, sensorial epistemologies emerging from intersections of documentary and horror cinema. From the ineffable subjects of horror documentaries and pseudo- documentaries, to the obsessive chroniclers of mockumentary, fake found-footage, and screenlife horror cinema, the films examined here express a generalized millennial and 21st-century archival anxiety around an unsettled and unsettling hypermediated reality.
Review Quotes:
"This is truly adventurous, wonderfully teachable scholarship. Woofter's selection of case studies is as innovative as his desire to reframe the relationship between horror and documentary films. In artful prose, Woofter demonstrates how his new concept of 'Gothumentary' structures cinema from its beginnings and continues to shape its transformations today." --Adam Lowenstein, author of Horror Film and Otherness, Director of the Horror Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, USA.