Humans are the only creatures that actively seek out fearful experiences. We go to scary movies. We take roller coaster rides. We skydive. We even pay money to do these things. That seems irrational. Paradoxical. Why do we do it? Read on!
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There has been a lot of questionable talk about the rise of digital media and the future of cinema, predicting the death of indexicality, the loss of the referent, and the “post-photographic era,” for example. Well, digital cinema has arrived, and as far as I can tell, spectators are still taking digital images as photographic evidence, as is true in the case of the Academy Award-winning documentary film The Cove (2009).