Jones, Steve (2019) Spierig Brothers' Jigsaw (2017) - Torture Porn Rebooted? In: Horror: A Companion. Peter Lang, Oxford, pp. 85-92. ISBN 9781787079199
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Abstract
After a seven-year hiatus, the Saw franchise returned. Critics overwhelmingly disapproved of the franchise’s reinvigoration, and much of that dissention centred around a label that is synonymous with Saw: ‘torture porn’. Numerous critics pegged the original Saw (2004) as torture porn’s prototype. Accordingly, critics characterised Jigsaw’s release as heralding an unwelcome ‘torture porn comeback’. This chapter investigates the legitimacy of this concern in order to determine what ‘torture porn’ is and means in the Jigsaw era.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Subjects: | W600 Cinematics and Photography |
| Department: | Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Paul Burns |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2019 15:08 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2021 11:21 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/39864 |
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