Horror, the Film Reader

Name: Horror, the Film Reader
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ISBN: 9780415235624

ISBN-10: 0415235626

ISBN-13: 9780415235624

Edition: 2001

Authors: Mark Jancovich

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Horror, The Film Readerbrings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror fromThe Cabinet of Dr. CaligaritoThe 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.

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/29/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



General Introduction



Theorising Horror - Introduction



Robin Wood


The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s



Noel Caroll


Why Horror?



Andrew Tudor


Why Horror: The Peculiar Pleasures of a Popular Genre



Gender, Sexuality and the Horror Film - Introduction



Linda Williams


When the Woman Looks



Barbara Creed


Horror and the Monstrous Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection



Carol Clover


Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film



Harry M. Benshoff


Introduction: The Monster and the Homosexual



Producing Horrors - Introduction



Paul O'Flinn


Productions and Reproductions: The case of Frankenstein



Peter Hutchings


The Problem of Horror



Joan Hawkins


Sleaze Mania, Euro-trash and High Art: The Place of European Art Films in American Low Culture



Consuming Fears - Introduction



Rhona Berenstein


Horror for Sale: The Marketing and Reception of Classic Horror Cinema



Mark Jancovich


Genre and the Audience: Genre Classification and Cultural Distinctions in the Mediation of The Silence of the Lambs



Linda Williams


Learning to Scream



Brigid Cherry


Refusing to Look: Female Viewers of the Horror Film


Bibliography