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ISBN: | 9780813550398 0813550394 9780813547954 0813547954 9780813547961 0813547962
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes webography, bibliographical references, and filmography (pages 211-222) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of Horror is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre. Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman and their various incarnations in film from the silent era to comedic sequels. A History of Horror explores how the horror f.
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Other form: | Print version: Dixon, Wheeler Winston. A History of Horror. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2010 9780813547954
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Standard no.: | 9786613383266
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