A history of the horror movie genre, which discusses individual movies in detail and draws out the more general patterns in the genre's development. The author explores the basic narrative strategies of the horror movie, and looks at the distinctive horror traditions based on mad scientists, supernatural monsters and psychotic killers. The book is intended to be of interest to general readers, especially film buffs, and students of film and the media.
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In this book the author provides a systematic history of the horror movie genre, discussing individual movies in detail, while also drawing out the more general patterns in the development of the genre. It is based on an analysis of almost 1000 films.
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invasive supernature, secure horror, supernatural horror movies, disordering impulse, paranoid horror, movie psychosis, witchcraft movies, supernatural movies, seventies boom, modern horror movies, fifties boom, fifties horror movies, invasion narratives, invasion from space, mad science, werewolf movies, invasion movies, vampire movies, secular everyday, human normality, supernatural threats, knowledge narrative, monstrous threat, modern genre, genre world Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peeping Tom, The Exorcist, The Curse of Frankenstein, Van Helsing, Cat People, The Evil Dead, House of Frankenstein, Grand Guignol, King Kong, Night of the Demon, Count Yorga, Known Unknown, Monthly Film Bulletin, Night of the Living Dead, Norman Bates, Peter Cushing, Robin Wood, Son of Frankenstein, The Amityville Horror, The Birds, The Howling, The Omen, The Vampire Lovers, The Werewolf of London, Christopher Lee New!
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Histories are plainly reconstructions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
invasive supernature, secure horror, supernatural horror movies, disordering impulse, paranoid horror, movie psychosis, witchcraft movies, supernatural movies, seventies boom, modern horror movies, fifties boom, fifties horror movies, invasion narratives, invasion from space, mad science, werewolf movies, invasion movies, vampire movies, secular everyday, human normality, supernatural threats, knowledge narrative, monstrous threat, modern genre, genre world Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peeping Tom, The Exorcist, The Curse of Frankenstein, Van Helsing, Cat People, The Evil Dead, House of Frankenstein, Grand Guignol, King Kong, Night of the Demon, Count Yorga, Known Unknown, Monthly Film Bulletin, Night of the Living Dead, Norman Bates, Peter Cushing, Robin Wood, Son of Frankenstein, The Amityville Horror, The Birds, The Howling, The Omen, The Vampire Lovers, The Werewolf of London, Christopher Lee New!
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- American Horrors: Essays on the Modern American Horror Film by Gregory A. Waller on 4 pages
- Night of the Living Dead by John Russo on page 97, and page 101
- The Vampire Cinema by David Pirie on page 78, and page 184
- Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror by James B. Twitchell on page 12, and page 223
- The Masque of The Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe on page 54, and page 190
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- The Naked And The Undead: Evil And The Appeal Of Horror (Thinking Through Cinema) by Cynthia Freeland on 4 pages
- The Horror Film (Rutgers Depth of Field Series) by Stephen Prince on 4 pages
- Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation by Susan J. Napier in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and page
- Celluloid Mushroom Clouds: Hollywood And Atomic Bomb (Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries) by Joyce Evans in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within by Chantal Bourgault du Coudray in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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