Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal : |
Worland Rick
(Auteur) |
Format : |
Livre |
Langue : |
anglais |
Titre complet : |
The horror film : an introduction / Rick Worland |
Publié : |
Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.
, 2007
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Description matérielle : |
1 vol. (XII-324 p.) |
Collection : |
New approaches to film genre series editor Barry Keith Grant ; 2
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Contenu : |
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. Appendix: Horror auteurs |
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