Masks in horror cinema : eyes without faces /

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Author / Creator:	Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra, 1974- author.
Imprint:	Cardiff (Wales) : University of Wales Press, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Horror studies Horror studies.
Subject:	Horror films -- History and criticism. Masks. Horror films. Masks. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12402140

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ISBN:	9781786834973 1786834979 9781786834980 1786834987 1786834960 9781786834966
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. On-line resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 21, 2019)
Summary:	Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors have a direct impact on mask-centric horror cinema: meanings, values and rituals associated with masks evolve and are updated in horror cinema to reflect new contexts, rendering the mask a persistent, meaningful and dynamic aspect of the genre's iconography. This study debates horror cinema's durability as a site for the potency of the mask's broader symbolic power to be constantly re-explored, re-imagined and re-invented as an object of cross-cultural and ritual significance that existed long before the moving image culture of cinema.
Other form:	Print version: Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra, 1974- Masks in horror cinema. Cardiff (Wales) : University of Wales Press, [2019] 1786834960 9781786834966

Table of Contents:

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Situating Masks and Horror Cinema; Part One: Masks, Horror and Cinema
Towards Codification; 2. Masks and Horror in Literary and Performance Traditions and Early Cinema; 3. Masks in Horror Film before 1970; Part Two: Horror Film Masks from 1970
Case Studies; 4. Skin Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation; 5. Blank Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation; 6. Animal Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation; 7. Repurposed Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation
Part Three: Masks as Transformational Technologies
Moving Forward by Looking Back8. Technological Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation; Conclusion; Endnotes; Bibliography; Back Cover

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