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'Gelder is to be congratulated on this selection. If you teach horror then I recommend this, the academic weight here, carefully used, could help students see beyond the gore.' - In The Picture
'Will do much to introduce the uninitiated to the cultural fascination of horror while giving the aficionados plenty to keep them ticking over.' - Intensities
Gelder is to be congratulated on this selection. If you teach horror then I recommend this, the academic weight here, carefully used, could help students see beyond the gore. - In The Picture
Will do much to introduce the uninitiated to the cultural fascination of horror while giving the aficionados plenty to keep them ticking over. - Intensities
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Spanning the history of horror in literature and film, from Edgar Allen Poe to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Horror Reader brings together essential writings on this most spectacular and controversial of genres. It covers classic gothic literature like Frankenstein to lesbian vampire movies and new Asian horror. An introduction by Ken Gelder and a preface before each section prepares the reader for the next topic of discussion on this fascinating genre.
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'Gelder is to be congratulated on this selection. If you teach horror then I recommend this, the academic weight here, carefully used, could help students see beyond the gore.' - In The Picture
'Will do much to introduce the uninitiated to the cultural fascination of horror while giving the aficionados plenty to keep them ticking over.' - Intensities
Gelder is to be congratulated on this selection. If you teach horror then I recommend this, the academic weight here, carefully used, could help students see beyond the gore. - In The Picture
Will do much to introduce the uninitiated to the cultural fascination of horror while giving the aficionados plenty to keep them ticking over. - Intensities
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Spanning the history of horror in literature and film, from Edgar Allen Poe to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Horror Reader brings together essential writings on this most spectacular and controversial of genres. It covers classic gothic literature like Frankenstein to lesbian vampire movies and new Asian horror. An introduction by Ken Gelder and a preface before each section prepares the reader for the next topic of discussion on this fascinating genre.
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horror fanzines, empty circularity, horror texts, cannibal ghost, contemporary horror film, ethnographic cinema, horror cinema, expedition film, spurious harmony, maternal imagination, fanzine editors, tree monster, modern horror film, slasher film, ethnographic spectacle, reverse colonization, vampire fiction, monstrous imagination, vampire films, lesbian vampire, feminist film theory, interracial rape, female spectatorship, maternal woman, bone flute Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, Mary Shelley, Final Girl, King Kong, Hill House, Chinese Ghost Story, Count Dracula, Night of the Living Dead, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, United States, The Curse of Frankenstein, Dario Argento, David Cronenberg, Lord Ruthven, Black Sunday, Dawn of the Dead, Frankfurt School, Jonathan Harker, Linda Williams, Robin Wood, James Whale, Mario Bava, New York, The Most Dangerous Game New!
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horror fanzines, empty circularity, horror texts, cannibal ghost, contemporary horror film, ethnographic cinema, horror cinema, expedition film, spurious harmony, maternal imagination, fanzine editors, tree monster, modern horror film, slasher film, ethnographic spectacle, reverse colonization, vampire fiction, monstrous imagination, vampire films, lesbian vampire, feminist film theory, interracial rape, female spectatorship, maternal woman, bone flute Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, Mary Shelley, Final Girl, King Kong, Hill House, Chinese Ghost Story, Count Dracula, Night of the Living Dead, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, United States, The Curse of Frankenstein, Dario Argento, David Cronenberg, Lord Ruthven, Black Sunday, Dawn of the Dead, Frankfurt School, Jonathan Harker, Linda Williams, Robin Wood, James Whale, Mario Bava, New York, The Most Dangerous Game New!
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- Dawn of the Dead by George A. Romero on 8 pages
- My Bone and My Flute (Drumbeats) by Edgar Mittelholzer on 6 pages
- Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives Series) by Professor Julia Kristeva on page 51, page 64, and Back Matter
- Monstrous Imagination by Marie-Hélène Huet on page 82, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson on page 188, and Back Matter
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- The Horror Reader by Ken Gelder in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Belief In Media: Cultural Perspectives On Media And Christianity by Peter Horsfield on page 120, and Back Matter
- Media Institutions and Audiences: Key Concepts in Media Studies by Nick Lacey in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture by Kendall R. Phillips in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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