carnography means any writing, films, images, or other material that contains gratuitous amounts of bloodshed or violence. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
Why “carnography” is a great word
CARNOGRAPHY — [Noun] Any writing, film, or image in which gratuitous and excessive violence is the primary, sensationalistic substance. The term is formed from Latin carnis (“flesh, meat”) and Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ, “writing”), by direct analogy to pornography. Unlike “horror,” which may unsettle through atmosphere and dread, or “gore,” which simply denotes bloodshed, carnography implies a sustained, spectacle-driven fixation. It is the forensic close-up on a wound that blooms; the choreography of the dismembering blade; the narrative that proceeds as a sterile catalog of dismemberments—a bleak topography where the map is drawn entirely in viscera, trading in human suffering as a visual commodity.
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- Any writing, films, images, or other material that contains gratuitous amounts of bloodshed or violence.“In 1986, Philip Brophy noted in Screen magazine that the horror film defied critics' attempts to deal with it as other than plotless carnography, gore, and effects for an increasingly brutalized mass audience.”