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The Horror Film: An Introduction / Edition 1
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The Horror Film: An Introduction / Edition 1
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The Horror Film: An Introduction / Edition 1
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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
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula.