British Horror Cinema (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Chibnall, Steve; Petley, Julian

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Going beyond the Hammer, this book investigates a wealth of horror filmmaking in Britain from early chillers like The Ghoul and Dark Eyes of London to acknowledged classics such as Peeping Tom and The Wicker Man.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134582587
• Artikelnr.: 42686842

Autorenporträt

Steve Chibnall is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at DeMontfort University, Leicester. He is the co-editor of British Crime Cinema (Routledge 1999). Julian Petley is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Information Studies at Brunel University. He is co-editor of Ill Effects: The Media Violence Debate: Second Edition (Routledge 2001).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations. Notes on contributors. Acknowledgements. 1. The
Return of the repressed? British Horror's heritage and future Steve
Chibnall and Julian Petley 2. The British censors and horror cinema Mark
Kermode 3. 'A crude sort of entertainment for a crude sort of audience':
the British critics and horror cinema Julian Petley 4. Screaming for
release: Femininity and horror film fandom in Britain Brigid Cherry 5.
Horrific films and 1930s British Cinema Ian Conrich 6. Psycho Thriller,
qu'est que c'est? Kim Newman 7. Necromancy in the UK: Witchcraft and the
occult in British horror Leon Hunt 8. Barbara, Julia, Carol, Myra and Nell:
Diagnosing female madness in British horror cinema Steven Jay Schneider 10.
The Amicus house of horror Peter Hutchings 11. A descent into the
underworld: Deathline Marcelle Perks 12. A heritage of evil: Peter Walker
and the politics of Gothic revisionism Steve Chibnall 13. On the side of
the demons: Clive Barker's pleasures and pains. Interviews with Clive
Barker and Doug Bradley Paul Wells 14. Dying light: an obituary for the
Great British Horror Movie Richard Stanley. Filmography of British horror
films in the sound era L. S. Smith