Horrorfilmes a felvevőgéppel. A film mint „megszűrt valóság”: The Blair Witch Project
Making the horror – The movie as filtrated reality: The Blair Witch Project

Summary/Abstract: Blair Witch Project is one of the strangest and most extraordinary moviesin film history. The article attempts to outline and expound the frame ofreference in which the film can be situated, interpreted and can possess aninterest. There are five coordinates, representing five different approaches,that make the film interpretable, and legitimate it as a subject of givendiscourses. 1. The film as ‘product’ or phenomenon: how can an unusuallylow-budget work spectacularly become a mainstream cult film and successstory. 2. Possibilities of situating the movie in the film history tradition, itsrelationship with the main genres and schools of film history, to the horrorgenre and / or the Dogma movement. 3. The problem of documentariness:the film as a ‘random object’, a pseudo-documentary, can reflect on basicissues of the documentary genre. 4. The film as a contemporary horror hit,its – ambivalent – relationship with the genre models and schools. 5. Thefilm as medium: the self/reflexive moments of Blair Witch Project, itsquestioning of the foundations of film and filmic existence („the horror filmperson with a camera”). The main issues of the article are film and reality,individual work and genre, the films as a medium „mediating itself.”

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