Horror, the film reader / / edited by Mark Jancovich
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| Titolo: |
Horror, the film reader / / edited by Mark Jancovich
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (197 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.436164 |
| Soggetto topico: | Horror films - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | JancovichMark |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Part 1: Theorizing Horror -- 1. The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s / Robin Wood -- 2. Why Horror? / Noel Carroll -- 3. Why Horror? The Peculiar Pleasures of a Popular Genre / Andrew Tudor -- Part 2: Gender, Sexuality and the Horror Film -- 4. When the Woman Looks / Linda Williams -- 5. Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection / Barbara Creed -- 6. Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film / Carol J. Clover -- 7. The Monster and the Homosexual / Harry M. Benshoff -- Part 3: Producing Horrors -- 8. Production and Reproduction: The Case of Frankenstein / Paul O'Flinn -- 9. The Problem of British Horror / Peter Hutchings -- 10. Sleaze Mania, Euro-trash, and High Art: The Place of European Art Films in American Low Culture / Joan Hawkins -- Part 4: Consuming Fears -- 11. Horror for Sale: The Marketing and Reception of Classic Horror Cinema / Rhona Berenstein -- 12. Genre and the Audience: Genre Classifications and Cultural Distinctions in the Mediation of The Silence of the Lambs / Mark Jancovich -- 13. Learning to Scream / Linda Williams -- 14. Refusing to Refuse to Look: Female Viewers of the Horror Film / Brigid Cherry. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This title 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Horror, the film reader |
| ISBN: | 1-134-56375-2 |
| 0-203-20484-0 | |
| 0-415-21355-X | |
| 0-203-13861-9 | |
| 1-280-40846-4 | |
| 9786610408467 | |
| 0-203-24494-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451339603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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