KWIATY CIAŁA I KRWI: WOKÓŁ MITU FILMÓW SNUFF
FLOWERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD: THE MYTH OF SNUFF FILMS

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is a social history of the myth of snuff movies (movies depicting real torture and murder distributed commercially). This myth is described as an urban legend circulating in lm culture, especially American, since 1970. The snuff-movie myth was created by moral panic caused by saturation of mainstream culture with pornography and images of sex and violence, but in later stages of its lifecycle dif- ferent variants of this urban legend surfaced. There are two main reasons for the longevity of the snuff-movie myth: its usefulness in certain cultural wars and the rapid technological progress in the creation and distribution of homemade movies.

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