Dreadful Pleasures An Anatomy of Modern Horror

Name: Dreadful Pleasures An Anatomy of Modern Horror
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ISBN: 9780195035667

ISBN-10: 0195035666

ISBN-13: 9780195035667

Edition: 1985

Authors: James B. Twitchell

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Dreadful Pleasures offers a lively look at those stories that make our hair stand on end--their persistence in our culture, their manifestations in art, and our need for the frissons they provide. James Twitchell traces our fascination with horror from the cave paintings at Lascaux to the "slasher" movies today. Twitchell finds that three particular stories have had a special resonance in our culture: the bloodsucker (Dracula), the deformed creature (Frankenstein), and the transformation monster (The Wolfman, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). Why have these stories persisted to the point of becoming mythic and to the exclusion of others? Whatever happened to the Phantom of the Opera or the…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/31/1985
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

James B. Twitchell is professor of English and advertising at the University of Florida and author of many books, including Adcult USAand Lead Us Into Temptation. He is also the author of 20 Ads That Shook the World, For Shame, and Branded Nation.Ken Ross has been a fine art photographer and educator for over thirty years. His photography has been displayed in numerous exhibits and featured in the New York Timesand Esquiremagazine. He has been awarded a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Grant and a New Jersey Artist Fellowship for the photographs seen in Where Men Hide.