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Horror, The Film Reader brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to The Blair Witch Project, and outlines the main critical debates. Combining classic and recent articles, each section explores a central issue of horror film, and features an editor's introduction outlining the context of debates.
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Mark Jancovich is Lecturer in Film Studies and Director of the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is series editor of Inside Popular Film Series and author of Horror (1992) and Rational Fears: American Horror Since the 1950s (1996).
Horror, The Film Reader brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to The Blair Witch Project, and outlines the main critical debates. Combining classic and recent articles, each section explores a central issue of horror film, and features an editor's introduction outlining the context of debates.
About the Author
Mark Jancovich is Lecturer in Film Studies and Director of the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is series editor of Inside Popular Film Series and author of Horror (1992) and Rational Fears: American Horror Since the 1950s (1996).
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In the previous chapter 1 briefly introduced the distinction between basic and surplus repression, developed out of Freud by Marcuse, and given definitive expression in a book that should be far better known than it is: Repression, by Gad Horowitz. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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In the previous chapter 1 briefly introduced the distinction between basic and surplus repression, developed out of Freud by Marcuse, and given definitive expression in a book that should be far better known than it is: Repression, by Gad Horowitz. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dasher film, different taste formations, historical reception studies, horror production, ofthe genre, horrific beings, horror narratives, shower murder, horror audiences, slasher movie, horror genre, horror cinema, horror fans, surplus repression, genre criticism, horror film, slasher film Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Shelley, Linda Williams, Robin Wood, Motion Picture Herald, The Silence of the Lambs, Clive Barker, Mary Ann Doane, Richard Dyer, United States, Andrew Tudor, Barbara Creed, Charles Laughton, King Kong, Mary Sheller, New Jersey, The Hunger, Carol Clover, Film Comment, Fred Schubers, Jonathan Lake Crane, Laura Mulvey, Pierre Bourdieu, Steve Neale, The Haunting, White Zombie New!
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- Laughing Screaming by Professor William Paul on page 129, page 134, and Back Matter
- Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives Series) by Professor Julia Kristeva on page 68, page 76, and page 101
- Planks of Reason by Barry Keith Grant on page 43, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Hollywood Cinema by Richard Maltby in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Night of the Living Dead by John Russo in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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