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Seeing Is Hearing Is Believing: Sensory Horror and Assistive Technologies

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How contradictory sensory experiences of horror films appeal to audiences.

Diffrient's strikingly original work mounts an intersensorial critique of the horror film, bringing disability studies, affect theory, and phenomenology together to evaluate how assistive technologies, such as audio description and subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences, become sites for interrogating embodied experiences of cinematic spectatorship. Exploring a broad range of case studies, from Carnival of S...