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03282aam a2200409 i 4500 001 24AB67F8F47811EDA3FB15433FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230517010023 008 220328s2023 njua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022014114 020 $a 1978833598 020 $a 9781978833593 020 $a 197883358X 020 $a 9781978833586 035 $a (OCoLC)1306215093 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d JVK $d YDX $d OCLCF $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN1995.9.H6 $b D59 2023 082 00 $a 791.43/616409 $2 23 100 1 $a Dixon, Wheeler W., $d 1950- $e author. 245 12 $a A history of horror / $c Wheeler Winston Dixon. 250 $a Second edition. 264 1 $a New Brunswick ; $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xiii, 281 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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 fully revised and updated A History of Horror is still 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. In covering the last decade, this new edition includes coverage of the resurgence of the genre, covering the swath of new groundbreaking horror films directed by women, Black and queer horror films, and a new international wave in body horror films. A History of Horror explores how the horror film fits into the Hollywood studio system, how the distribution and exhibition of horror films have changed in a post-COVID world, and how its enormous success in American and European culture expanded globally over time. Dixon examines key periods in the horror film-in which the basic precepts of the genre were established, then banished into conveniently reliable and malleable forms, and then, after collapsing into parody, rose again and again to create new levels of intensity and menace. A History of Horror, supported by rare stills from classic films, brings over sixty timeless horror films into frightfully clear focus, zooms in on today's top horror Web sites, and champions the stars, directors, and subgenres that make the horror film so exciting and popular with contemporary audiences"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-251) and index. 505 0 $a Origins : 1896-1929 -- Classics : 1930-1948 -- Rebirth : 1949-1970 -- New blood : 1970-1990 -- The next wave : 1990-2010 --Into the future : 2010-present. 650 0 $a Horror films $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x History. 650 0 $a History. 650 7 $a Horror films. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00960370 650 7 $a Motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027285 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025429.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=24AB67F8F47811EDA3FB15433FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search