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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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Horror |
| Subtitle of host publication | A Companion |
| Editors | Simon Bacon |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Peter Lang |
| Pages | 85-92 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781787079212 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781787079199 |
| Publication status | Published - 13 Jun 2019 |
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Horror's Most Important Scenes: The Saw Series
Jones, S. (Producer), 21 Dec 2024Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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Torture porn: Popular horror after saw
Jones, S., 31 Jul 2013, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 248 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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The lexicon of offence: The meanings of torture, porn, and ‘Torture Porn'
Jones, S., 28 Nov 2012, Controversial Images: media representations on the edge. Attwood, F., Campbell, V., Hunter, I. Q. & Lockyer, S. (eds.). Basingstoke: Macmillan, p. 186-200 296 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review