 The Horror Film: An Introduction
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3901-4
Hardcover
336 pages
November 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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Combining historical narrative with close readings of several significant horror films, this brief volume offers a broad and lively introduction to cinematic horror. In doing so, it outlines and investigates important issues in the production, consumption, and cultural interpretation of the genre.
* An ideal text for perennially popular courses on the horror film genre.
* Examines the ways in which horror movies have been produced, received, and interpreted by filmmakers, audiences, and critics, from the 1920s to the present.
* Provides a short historical introduction of the horror film as an orientation to the field.
* Analyses a wide variety of major works in the genre, including Frankenstein, Cat People, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
* An ideal text for perennially popular courses on the horror film genre.
* Examines the ways in which horror movies have been produced, received, and interpreted by filmmakers, audiences, and critics, from the 1920s to the present.
* Provides a short historical introduction of the horror film as an orientation to the field.
* Analyses a wide variety of major works in the genre, including Frankenstein, Cat People, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
