The cinema of cruelty in streaming
Elements of perversity in Chernobyl and years and years
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18958237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez (0000-0003-1739-1119), Carlos Fernández Rodríguez (0000-0001-5270-5772, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos), Luis Miguel Romero-Rodríguez (0000-0003-3924-1517, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 202-219 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for Cultural Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-7585 • E-ISSN: 1740-1666 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14797585.2021.1937250 |
| OpenAlex | W3171539119 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
This study aims to diagnose how the cinema of cruelty has been inserted into mainstream culture through the current streaming series, analysing the elements of the eroticism of perversity and the cinema of cruelty in the series Chernobyl and Years and Years (HBO: 2019). This is done with the design of a content analysis sheet based on the interpretation of theoretical constructs, validated by expert judgement. The results diagnose an excess of trivialised cruelty, evidencing the spectator’s desensitisation to the images, as well as their fascination with them. In this sense, the growing audiovisual success of misanthropic, entertaining, and pornographic narratives is evident. It is concluded that discomfort, fun, horror pornography, and their respective prestige, are installed in contemporary popular television culture, reproducing a relationship between the depressing and the entertainment
Aesthetics · Art · Criminology · Cruelty · Entertainment · Epistemology · Eroticism · Human sexuality · Judgement · Literature · Mainstream · Media studies · Movie theater · Narrative · Political science · Pornography · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |