Planks of Reason Essays on the Horror Film

Name: Planks of Reason Essays on the Horror Film
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ISBN: 9780810850132

ISBN-10: 0810850133

ISBN-13: 9780810850132

Edition: 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Barry Keith Grant, Christopher Sharrett

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List price: $93.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/24/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 7.24" wide x 8.44" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Alistair Fox holds a personal chair in the Department of English and is director of the Centre for Research on National Identity at the University of Otago.Barry Keith Grant is professor of film studies and popular culture at Brock University.




The mummy's pool




Faith and idolatry in the horror film




Conditions of pleasure in horror cinema




The aesthetics of fright




The witch in film : myth and reality




Daughters of darkness : the lesbian vampire on film




"Canyons of nightmare" : the Jewish horror film




An introduction to the American horror film




Eros and syphilization : the contemporary horror film




Rich and strange : the yuppie horror film




Enunciation and the production of horror in White zombie




King Kong : ape and essence




The comic and the grotesque in James Whale's Frankenstein films




Film, society, and ideas : Nosferatu and Horror of Dracula




Ritual, tension, and relief : the terror of The tingler




AIP's Pit and the pendulum : Poe as drive-in gothic




The idea of apocalypse in The texas chainsaw massacre




Archetypal landscapes and Jaws




Biological alchemy and the films of David Cronenberg




The enemy within : the economy of violence in The hills have eyes




Halloween : suspense, aggression, and the look




Demons in the family : tracking the Japanese "uncanny mother film" from A page of madness to Ringu