The horror film /
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Imprint: | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 272 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Rutgers depth of field series Rutgers depth of field series. |
Subject: | Horror films -- History and criticism. ART -- Film & Video. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference. Horror films. Film. Music, Dance, Drama & Film. Electronic books. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11282565 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Dark Genre and Its Paradoxes; The Silent and Classical Hollywood Eras; Shadow-Souls and Strange Adventures: Horror and the Supernatural in European Silent Film; Before Sound: Universal, Silent Cinema, and the Last of the Horror-Spectaculars; Children of the Night; The Horrors of War; The Modern Era; Postmodern Elements of the Contemporary Horror Film; Dread, Taboo, and The Thing: Toward a Social Theory of the Horror Film; Toward an Aesthetics of Cinematic Horror; Scraping Bottom: Splatter and the Herschell Gordon Lewis Oeuvre; Mondo Horror: Carnivalizing the Taboo.