Shadowy Silence: Horror Before Sound -- Browning and Chaney: The Father of Freaks and the Man of a Thousand Faces -- Monster Central: The Great Horror Cycles Begin -- Cranking Out the Creepies: Horror in the 1930s and 1940s -- Val Lewton and the Terrors of the Unseen -- Atomic-Age Monsters: The Sci-Fi/Horror Boom -- Blood and Bosoms: The Success of Hammer Horror -- The Moment of Shock: Psycho and Peeping Tom -- The Corman Poes, and the Peerless Vincent Price -- Horror, Italian Style -- All Hell Breaks Loose, 1960-1975 -- Bloody England: Hammer's Competitors -- The Sleep of Reason: Horror in Spanish -- Godzilla & Co.: Far East Horror in Transition -- Polanski, Coffin Joe, and Others -- Clark, Craven, Carpenter, and Cronenberg -- Mainstream Horror; Or, Bring the Kids! -- J- and K-Horror, and Other Asian Entries -- The Problem of Torture Porn -- Zombies! -- There's Usually a Gorilla: Horror-Comedies -- Masters for a New Millennium -- Is Horror Legit? -- Post-Horror and Beyond.
Summary:
"Nightmares Alive offers a general introduction to the popular film genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, and celebrates its practitioners, trends, and stories"-- Provided by publisher.
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