A history of horror /

A history of horror /

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Author / Creator:	Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950-
Imprint:	New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 248 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Horror films -- History and criticism. Horror films. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11122514

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ISBN:	9780813550398 0813550394 9780813547954 0813547954 9780813547961 0813547962
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes webography, bibliographical references, and filmography (pages 211-222) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Dixon, Wheeler Winston. A History of Horror. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2010 9780813547954
Standard no.:	9786613383266

Table of Contents:

Origins : 1896-1929
Classics : 1930-1948
Rebirth : 1949-1970
New blood : 1970-1990
The future : 1990-present.