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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| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Publishing,
2007.
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| Series: | New approaches to film genre ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : undying monsters
- 2. A short history of the horror film : beginnings to 1945
- 3. A short history of the horror film : 1945 to the present
- 4. Monsters among us : cases of social reception
- 5. Edges of the horror film : Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, and The unknown (1927)
- 6. Frankenstein (1931) and Hollywood expressionism
- 7. Cat people (1942) : Lewton, Freud, and suggestive horror
- 8. Horror in "the age of anxiety" : Invasion of the body snatchers (1956)
- 9. Slaughtering genre tradition : The Texas chain saw massacre (1974)
- 10. Halloween (1978) : the shape of the slasher film
- 11. Re-animator (1985) and slapstick horror
- 12. Demon lover : Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
- 13. Afterword : our haunted houses
- Appendix : Horror auteurs.