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Splatter Capital by Mark Steven EPUB

Splatter Capital shows how a popular sub-genre of cinematic horror has developed a uniquely sensitive perspective on the cycles of capitalism.
It argues that the emphatically messy brand of horror mobilised in gore or 'splatter' ; films is extremely responsive to the internal contradictions that threaten the future sustainability of capitalist accumulation.

And, while responding to the prospect of that end, splatter promotes an extant truth: capitalist accumulation is and always has been a nightmare of systematised bloodshed.

This book provides an account of that nightmare as told through a combination of economic history and filmic analysis. The story it tells will serve as a source of both theoretical and practical knowledge for surviving the horror movie we collectively inhabit.

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