AFFECTIVE INTENSITIES AND EVOLVING HORROR FORMS: FROM FOUND FOOTAGE TO VIRTUAL REALITY By Adam Daniel. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2020. 232 pp. $105 hardback, $24.95 paper, $27.95 ePub.

Abstract

tion to be a valuable resource. Brown ably synthesizes research done by many important scholars writing on animation, film, and literary and cultural studies. Academics in the burgeoning field of Disney studies will also turn to this book as a source of constructive research and insight into how this company, founded initially as an animation studio, evolved into the world’s largest and most encompassing entertainment conglomerate. Brown’s book was published a few months before the Walt Disney Company announced that it would permanently close Blue Sky Studios (the Ice Age and Rio films, Robots, Spies in Disguise), citing the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic and further solidifying its animation monopoly on films made by Pixar and Disney. It would have been fascinating to hear Brown’s opinions on the Blue Sky closure, though the analysis he lays out in the book provides a framework for recognizing the Disney corporate mentality of the past thirty years. Understanding the history and cultural impact of twentieth and twenty-first century Hollywood animation helps clarify the intimate relationship between ideology and socioeconomic practice. The breadth of research and analysis demonstrated in Brown’s book will enable it to be a permanent fixture in the growing archive for where animation and cultural studies intersect. Farisa Khalid College of William & Mary Farisa Khalid recently graduated with her PhD in English from George Washington University. She specializes in British and Anglophone literature from the late nineteenth century to the present, modern drama, and film. She has an MA in art history from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts and an MA in Irish Studies from New York University. Her work has appeared in publications such as Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Animation, and The Journal of Popular Culture. Recently, she has worked as a lecturer in literature and cultural studies at Howard University and College of William & Mary.