Mark Jancovich (ed.)

Horror, The Film Reader

Herausgeber: Jancovich, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

Horror, The Film Reader brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror film from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to The Blair Witch Project, and outlines the main critical debates. Combining classic and recent articles, each section explores a central issue of horror film, and features an editor's introduction outlining the context of debates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780415235617
• ISBN-10: 0415235618
• Artikelnr.: 21631340

Autorenporträt

Mark Jancovich is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction. Part One: Theorising Horror - Introduction 1. Robin Wood
The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s 2. Noel Caroll
Why Horror? 3. Andrew Tudor
Why Horror: The Peculiar Pleasures of a Popular Genre Part Two: Gender
Sexuality and the Horror Film - Introduction 4. Linda Williams
When the Woman Looks 5. Barbara Creed
Horror and the Monstrous Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection 6. Carol Clover
Her Body
Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film 7. Harry M. Benshoff
Introduction: The Monster and the Homosexual Part Three: Producing Horrors - Introduction 8. Paul O'Flinn
Productions and Reproductions: The case of Frankenstein 9. Peter Hutchings
The Problem of Horror 10. Joan Hawkins
Sleaze Mania
Euro-trash and High Art: The Place of European Art Films in American Low Culture Part Four: Consuming Fears - Introduction 11. Rhona Berenstein
Horror for Sale: The Marketing and Reception of Classic Horror Cinema 12. Mark Jancovich
Genre and the Audience: Genre Classification and Cultural Distinctions in the Mediation of The Silence of the Lambs 13. Linda Williams
Learning to Scream 14. Brigid Cherry
Refusing to Look: Female Viewers of the Horror Film. Bibliography