Horror Film An Introduction

Name: Horror Film An Introduction
Price: 23.98 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781405139021

ISBN-10: 1405139021

ISBN-13: 9781405139021

Edition: 2007

Authors: Rick Worland

List price: $50.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $33.59

Marketplace

4 new & used from $23.98

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Combining historical narrative with close readings of several significant horror films, this brief volume offers a broad and lively introduction to cinematic horror. In doing so, it outlines and investigates important issues in the production, consumption, and cultural interpretation of the genre. An ideal text for perennially popular courses on the horror film genre. Examines the ways in which horror movies have been produced, received, and interpreted by filmmakers, audiences, and critics, from the 1920s to the present. Provides a short historical introduction of the horror film as an orientation to the field. Analyses a wide variety of major works in the genre, including…

Book details

List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.05" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Introduction: Undying Monsters



A Short History of the Horror Film: Beginnings to 1945



A Short History of the Horror Film: 1945 to the Present



Monsters Among Us: Cases of Social Reception



Edges of the Horror Film: Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, and The Unknown (1927)



Frankenstein (1931) and Hollywood Expressionism



Cat People (1942): Lewton, Freud, and Suggestive Horror



Horror in "The Age of Anxiety": Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)



Slaughtering Genre Tradition: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)



Halloween (1978): The Shape of the Slasher Film



Re-Animator (1985) and Slapstick Horror



Demon Lover: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)



Afterword: Our Haunted Houses



Horror Auteurs


Notes


Index