Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality

As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies.

Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. It examines the diverse pre...