The horror film : an introduction / Rick Worland.

"Combining historical narrative with close readings of several significant horror films, this brief volume offers a broad and lively introduction to cinematic horror. In doing so, it outlines and investigates important issues in the production, consumption, and cultural interpretation of the ge...

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Main Author: Worland, Rick (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
Series:New approaches to film genre ; 2.
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505 0 0 |g 1.  |t Introduction : undying monsters --  |g 2.  |t A short history of the horror film : beginnings to 1945 --  |g 3.  |t A short history of the horror film : 1945 to the present --  |g 4.  |t Monsters among us : cases of social reception --  |g 5.  |t Edges of the horror film : Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, and The unknown (1927) --  |g 6.  |t Frankenstein (1931) and Hollywood expressionism --  |g 7.  |t Cat people (1942) : Lewton, Freud, and suggestive horror --  |g 8.  |t Horror in "the age of anxiety" : Invasion of the body snatchers (1956) --  |g 9.  |t Slaughtering genre tradition : The Texas chain saw massacre (1974) --  |g 10.  |t Halloween (1978) : the shape of the slasher film --  |g 11.  |t Re-animator (1985) and slapstick horror --  |g 12.  |t Demon lover : Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) --  |g 13.  |t Afterword : our haunted houses --  |t Appendix : Horror auteurs. 
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