Analog Horror and the Internet: "The Mandela Catalogue" and the Uncanny Reality of Mediation
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Culver, Emma Eleanor Jones
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Analog horror is a popular subgenre of internet horror that uses the aesthetic stylings of televisual mediums of the past such as VHS tapes and emphasizes the materiality and errors of these mediums. This work will analyze these central traits and connect analog horror to prior forms of internet horror to identify the similarities in their approach to horror on “new” mediums, specifically through the trope of pieces of media possessed or influenced by otherworldly forces. In turn, this sharing of tales of haunted media on the internet will be placed in the context of humankind’s historical relationship with new media forms and our tendency to assign supernatural qualities to emerging media."The Mandela Catalogue" (2021-) will be analyzed as a case study to examine the subgenre’s tropes through the lens of Freud’s uncanny. The use of the uncanny association with media operates in analog horror as a reanimation of our past cultural associations between the unhuman and media in the context of the internet in order to indirectly address our own fears regarding the ever-evolving modern netscape and its growing influence and presence. Analog horror is the internet’s retelling of the eternal existential conflicts created by the relationship between humankind and the mediums that capture its presence.
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2024-04-29
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