by Steen Ledet Christiansen (Author)

The New Cinematic Weird analyzes the role that creepy, unsettling, ominous, uneasy, and eerie atmospheres play in recent films of this genre. The author shows how the new cinematic weird elicits joy by creating weird atmospheres as affective intensities that are to be experienced rather than understood.

Author Biography

Steen Ledet Christiansen is professor of popular visual culture at Aalborg University, Denmark.