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Author:

Worland, Rick.

Title:

The horror film : an introduction / Rick Worland.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Blackwell Pub.,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xii, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Horror films--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-303) and index.

Contents:

Index. Acknowledgments -- 13. Introduction : undying monsters -- 2. A short history of the horror film : beginnings to 1945 -- 3. A short history of the horror film : 1945 to the present -- 4. Monsters among us : cases of social reception -- 5. Edges of the horror film : Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, and The unknown (1927) -- 6. Frankenstein (1931) and Hollywood expressionism -- 7. Cat people (1942) : Lewton, Freud, and suggestive horror -- 8. Horror in "the age of anxiety" : Invasion of the body snatchers (1956) -- 9. Slaughtering genre tradition : The Texas chain saw massacre (1974) -- 10. Halloween (1978) : the shape of the slasher film -- 11. Re-animator (1985) and slapstick horror -- 12. Demon lover : Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) -- 13. Afterword : our haunted houses -- Appendix : Horror auteurs -- Notes -- Index.

Series:

New approaches to film genre ; 2

ISBN:

9781405139021 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1405139021 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781405139014 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1405139013 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006017117

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)