£9.99
Peter Turner tells the story of The Blair Witch Project (1999) from his conception and provides a unique analysis of the mockumentary film-making techniques used, its appeal to audiences and the themes that helped make the film such an international hit.
Description
Few films of any genre have had the influence and impact of The Blair Witch Project (1999). Its arrival was a horror cinema palette cleanser after a decade of serial killers and postmodern tongue-in-cheek intertextuality, a bare bones ‘found footage’ trend setter. In this Devil’s Advocate, Peter Turner tells the story of the film from his conception then provides a unique analysis of the mockumentary film-making techniques used, its appeal to audiences and the themes that helped make the film such an international hit (more than $140 million in the US alone), including the pioneering internet marketing campaign. The book also explores the film s lasting impact on the horror genre with other found footage phenomena such as the Paranormal Activity series.
£9.99 110pp 978-1-906733-84-1 2014
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