Barry Keith Grant

100 American Horror Films (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"[A] well-plotted survey." Total Film

In 100 American Horror Films, Barry Keith Grant presents entries on 100 films from one of American cinema's longest-standing, most diverse and most popular genres, representing its rich history from the silent era - D.W. Griffith's The Avenging Conscience of 1915 - to contemporary productions - Jordan Peele's 2017 Get Out.

In his introduction, Grant provides an overview of the genre's history, a context for the films addressed in the individual entries, and discusses the specific relations between American culture and horror. All of the entries are informed by the question of what makes the specific film being discussed a horror film, the importance of its place within the history of the genre, and, where relevant, the film is also contextualized within specifically American culture and history. Each entry also considers the film's most salient textual features, provides important insight into its production, and offers both established and original critical insight and interpretation.

The 100 films selected for inclusion represent the broadest historical range, and are drawn from every decade of American film-making, movies from major and minor studios, examples of the different types or subgenres of horror, such as psychological thriller, monster terror, gothic horror, home invasion, torture porn, and parody, as well as the different types of horror monsters, including werewolves, vampires, zombies, mummies, mutants, ghosts, and serial killers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839021442
• Artikelnr.: 63308726

Autorenporträt

Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Film Studies and Popular Culture at Brock University, Canada. He is author of Film Genre (2007) and Voyages of Discovery (1992) and co-author of The Film Studies Dictionary (2001) and 100 Documentary Films (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Addiction (Abel Ferrara
1995) 2. American Psycho (Mary Harron
2000) 3. American Werewolf in London (John Landis
1981) 4. The Avenging Conscience (D.W. Griffith
1914) 5. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock
1963) 6. Blade (Stephen Norrington
1998) 7. The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick and Eduard Sánchez
1999) 8. Brian Damage (Frank Henenlotter
1988) 9. Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola
1992) 10. The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale
1935) 11. Bubba Ho-Tep (Don Coscorelli
2002) 12. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (Charles Barton
1948) 13. The Burrowers (J. T. Petty
2008) 14. Candyman (Bernard Rose
1992) 15. Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey
1962) 16. Carrie (Brian De Palma
1976) 17. The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni
1927) 18. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur
1942) 19. Child's Play (Tom Holland
1998) 20. Color out of Space (Richard Stanley
2019) 21. Contagion (Steven Soderbergh
2011) 22. The Crazies (George A. Romero
1973) 23. Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold
1954) 24. The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg
1983) 25. The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie
2005) 26. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian
1931) 27. Dracula (Tod Browning
1931) 28. Eraserhead (David Lynch
1977) 29. The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi
1981) 30. The Exorcist (William Friedkin
1973) 31. Fall of the House of Usher (James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber
1928) 32. Fallen (Gregory Hoblit
1998) 33. Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne
1987) 34. The Fly (Kurt Neumann
1958) 35. Frankenstein (J. Searle Dawley
1910) 36. Freaks (Tod Browning
1932) 37. The Frighteners (Peter Jackson
NZ/US
1996) 38. Funny Games U.S. (Michael Haneke
2007) 39. Ganja and Hess (Bill Gunn
1973) 40. Get Out (Jordan Peele
2017) 41. Gremlins (Joe Dante
1984) 42. Halloween (John Carpenter
1978) 43. The Hellstrom Chronicle (Walon Green
1971) 44. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton
1986) 45. The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven
1977) 46. Hostel (Eli Roth
2005) 47. House of Wax (André de Toth
1953) 48. The Hunger (Tony Scott
1983) 49. I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur
1943) 50. I Was a Teenage Werewolf (Gene Fowler
Jr.
1957) 51. In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter
1994) 52. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (Neil Jordan
1994) 53. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman
1978) 54. It's Alive (Larry Cohen
1974) 55. Jaws (Steven Spielberg
1975) 56. King Kong (Meriam C. Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack
1933) 57. The Last House on the Left (Wes Craven
1972) 58. Let Me In (Matt Reeves
2010) 59. The Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman
1960) 60. The Lodger (John Brahm
1944) 61. Mad Love (Karl Freund
1935) 62. The Magician (Rex Ingram
1926) 63. Martin (George A. Romero
1976) 64. The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman
1964) 65. Midsommar (Ari Aster
2019) 66. Misery (Rob Reiner
1990) 67. The Mist (Frank Darabont
2007) 68. The Mummy (Karl Freund
1932) 69. Murders in the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey
1932) 70. Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow
1987) 71. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero
1968) 72. Office Killer (Cindy Sherman
1997) 73. The Omen (Richard Donner
1976) 74. Paranormal Activity (Orin Peli
2007) 75. The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julien
1925) 76. Phantom of the Paradise (Brian de Palma
1974) 77. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper
1982) 78. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock
1960) 79. The Purge (James DeMonaco
2013) 80. Race with the Devil (Jack Starrett
1975) 81. Ravenous (Antonia Bird
1999) 82. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski
1968) 83. Saw (James Wan
US/Australia
2004) 84. Scream (Wes Craven
1996) 85. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick
1980) 86. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme
1991) 87. Sisters (Brian De Palma
1972) 88. Targets (Peter Bogdanovich
1968) 89. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper
1974) 90. The Tingler (William Castle
1959) 91. Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont
2003) 92. Two Thousand Maniacs! (Herschell Gordon Lewis
1964) 93. The Unknown (Tod Browning
1927) 94. Weird Woman (Reginald Le Borg
1944) 95. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich
1962) 96. White Zombie (Victor Halperin
1932) 97. The Wind (Emma Tammi
2019) 98. The Witch (Robert Eggers
2015) 99. The Wolf Man (George Waggner
1941) 100. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks
1974) Index