{"product_id":"seeing-is-hearing-is-believing-david-scott-diffrient-9780814351888","title":"Seeing Is Hearing Is Believing: Sensory Horror and Assistive Technologies","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eHow contradictory sensory experiences of horror films appeal to audiences.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiffrient's strikingly original work mounts an intersensorial critique of the horror film, bringing disability studies, affect theory, and phenomenology together to evaluate how assistive technologies, such as audio description and subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences, become sites for interrogating embodied experiences of cinematic spectatorship. Exploring a broad range of case studies, from \u003ci\u003eCarnival of Souls\u003c\/i\u003e (1962) to \u003ci\u003eExorcist II: The Heretic\u003c\/i\u003e (1977) and\u003ci\u003e Scream VI \u003c\/i\u003e(2023), this book questions how audiovisual features unique to the motion picture medium implicate perceptions of touch, taste, and smell and serve as a principal way for people to establish belief in otherwise unbelievable phenomena. Longtime horror fans as well as newcomers to the genre will find much to savor in this eye-opening--and ear-opening--intervention in contemporary media culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Scott Diffrient\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814351883\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814351888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"David Scott Diffrient","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001188131071,"sku":"9780814351888","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/seeing-is-hearing-is-believing-david-scott-diffrient-9780814351888","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}