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BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS: Surveillance, Fear and Crime Control in Found-Footage Horror Films

by Cassandra Persaud

Institution:	Wilfrid Laurier University
Year:	2017
Keywords:	found-footage horror; horror films; surveillance; surveillance technology; crime control; voyeurism; Criminology; Film and Media Studies; Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance
Posted:	02/01/2018
Record ID:	2189177
Full text PDF:	http://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1909

Abstract

In recent years, found-footage horror films have reappeared with increasing popularity, leading to its recognition as the current horror subgenre du jour. Its amateur style of filmmaking has allowed the subgenre to explore public concerns around the growth of technology, the use of surveillance, and crime control. Found-footage horror films offer a unique platform for analysis as they are framed around presenting the footage in the film as factual or reality. In this research study, themes and narratives around the use of surveillance and the production of the docile body in found-footage horror films were examined. The study involved an ethnographic content analysis of 20 films, categorized under the found-footage horror subgenre. Based on an analysis of the data, the studys findings conclude that the FFH films in the sample are both critical and supportive of surveillance.