The horror film: an introduction

2007; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 44; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.44-6756

ISSN

1943-5975

Autores

Rick Worland,

Tópico(s)

Cinema and Media Studies

Resumo

List of illustrations. Acknowledgments. 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 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: Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). 10. Halloween (1978): 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. Notes. Index

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