The Aesthetics of Horror Films : A Santayanan Perspective / / by Forrest Adam Sopuck
| The Aesthetics of Horror Films : A Santayanan Perspective / / by Forrest Adam Sopuck |
| Autore | Sopuck Forrest Adam |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (137 pages) |
| Disciplina | 791.436164 |
| Soggetto topico |
Aesthetics
Motion pictures - Aesthetics Film genres Film Philosophy Genre Studies |
| ISBN |
9783030843465
3030843467 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Aesthetic Optimism -- Chapter 3: Fear in the Cinema and the Definition of Horror -- Chapter 4: Horror and its Dark Visions -- Chapter 5: Horror and its Dark Witnesses. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910502982903321 |
Sopuck Forrest Adam
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Agatha Christie and Gothic Horror : Adaptations and Televisuality
| Agatha Christie and Gothic Horror : Adaptations and Televisuality |
| Autore | Richards Stuart |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (216 pages) |
| Disciplina | 791.436164 |
| Collana | Horror and Gothic Media Cultures Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Horror television programs
ART / Film & Video |
| ISBN |
9789048556649
9048556643 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Dark Moods and Deadly Puzzles -- 1. And Then There Were None and Fantastic Horror -- 2. Ordeal by Innocence and the Uncanny -- 3. The Pale Horse and Folk Horror -- 4. The Detective's Psyche in Witness for the Prosecution and The ABC Murders -- Conclusion: Agnus Dei -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910985668603321 |
Richards Stuart
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| Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2024 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American silent horror, science fiction and fantasy feature films, 1913-1929 [[electronic resource] /] / John T. Soister and Henry Nicolella ; with Steve Joyce and Harry Long ; researcher-archivist, Bill Chase
| American silent horror, science fiction and fantasy feature films, 1913-1929 [[electronic resource] /] / John T. Soister and Henry Nicolella ; with Steve Joyce and Harry Long ; researcher-archivist, Bill Chase |
| Autore | Soister John T. <1950-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jefferson, N.C., : McFarland & Co., Inc., c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (831 p.) |
| Disciplina |
791.43/6164
791.436164 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NicolellaHenry
JoyceSteve <1952-> LongHarry ChaseBill |
| Soggetto topico |
Horror films - United States
Science fiction films - United States Fantasy films - United States Silent films - United States |
| ISBN |
1-280-87730-8
9786613718617 0-7864-8790-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | v. 1. Authors' notes. Preface. After his own heart-The mystic -- v. 2. Neptune's bride-The zero hour. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790500103321 |
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Animality and Horror Cinema : Creaturely Fear on Film / / edited by Peter Sands, Mo O’ Neill, Samantha Hind
| Animality and Horror Cinema : Creaturely Fear on Film / / edited by Peter Sands, Mo O’ Neill, Samantha Hind |
| Autore | Sands Peter |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2025.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (325 pages) |
| Disciplina | 791.436164 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NeillMo O'
HindSamantha |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures
Animal culture Film Studies Animal Science |
| ISBN | 3-031-87294-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Creaturely Fear: An Introduction -- Part 1: Animal Traces -- Chapter 2: Surrealism and Creaturely Holocaust Killing in Juraj Herz’s The Cremator -- Chapter 3: Jordan Peele’s Animals: Zoological Horror, Afropessimist Allegory and the Alien Superstar -- Chapter 4: The Animal-Image: On the Uses of Animals in Claire Denis’ Horror Films -- Part 2: The Multi-Sensorial Animal -- Chapter 5: A Horror Multiplied by the Eyes of Every House Fly: Compound Misconceptions and Prejudices on Filmic Insects -- Chapter 6: Killer Wail: Colouring Nonhuman Trauma in Orca: The Killer Whale -- Chapter 7: Sound, Silence, Horror, and the Hare -- Part 3: True Story Monstrosities -- Chapter 8: Animal Agency and Animal Sovereignties in Roar -- Chapter 9: Living with Saltwater Crocodiles: Respectful and Reverential Eco-Fear in Dark Age -- Chapter 10: “The Touch of his Hairy Hand Offended You”: The Epistemological Indeterminacy of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright -- Part 4: Meat, Sacrifice and Sympathy -- Chapter 11: Made in the Harming: Julia Ducournau’s Raw and the Cutting Continuities of Animal Montage -- Chapter 12: Flesh & Negation: Vegan Aesthetics and Sympathetic Action in David Lynch’s Eraserhead. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911021155203321 |
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| Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025 | ||
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Australian horror films, 1973-2010 [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Shelley
| Australian horror films, 1973-2010 [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Shelley |
| Autore | Shelley Peter <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jefferson, N.C., : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
| Disciplina |
791.43/6164
791.436164 |
| Soggetto topico |
Horror films - Australia - History and criticism
Motion pictures - Australia - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-283-60164-8
9786613914095 0-7864-8993-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; The Films; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785781703321 |
Shelley Peter <1962->
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| Jefferson, N.C., : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2012 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Baroque Aesthetics in Contemporary American Horror / / by Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez
| Baroque Aesthetics in Contemporary American Horror / / by Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez |
| Autore | Eljaiek-Rodríguez Gabriel |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina |
791.436164
791.4361640973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures, American
Film genres American Film and TV Genre Studies |
| ISBN |
9783030882518
3030882519 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1.Introduction. Tracing Monstrous Multiplicity -- 2.Baroque Aesthetics and Horrors -- 3.US Baroque Horror Series: American Horror Story, Penny Dreadful, Hemlock Grove.-4.Saturating the Big Screen: Insidious Franchise and The Conjuring Universe -- 5.Baroque Horror Politics. Get Out and American Horror Story: Cult -- 6.Conclusion: "My name is Legion for we are many.". |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910512187003321 |
Eljaiek-Rodríguez Gabriel
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 | ||
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A companion to the horror film / / edited by Harry M. Benshoff
| A companion to the horror film / / edited by Harry M. Benshoff |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (611 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.436164 |
| Soggetto topico | Horror films - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-119-33501-9
1-118-88360-8 1-118-88364-0 1-118-88349-7 1-118-88350-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Approaches and contexts. Cognitive and philosophical approaches to horror / by Aaron Smuts -- Horror and psychoanalysis: an introductory primer / by Chris Dumas -- Gender and sexuality haunts the horror film / by Daniel Humphrey -- The horror film as social allegory (and how it comes undone) / by Christopher Sharrett -- Avenging the body: disability in the horror film / by Travis Sutton -- Horror reception/audiences / by Matt Hills -- A's, b's, quickies, orphans, and nasties: horror films in the context of distribution and exhibition / by Kevin Heffernan -- Horror and the censors / by Julian Petley -- The form of horror. Carl Dreyer's corpse: horror film atmosphere and narrative by Robert Spadoni -- Horror sound design / by William Whittington -- Mellifluous terror: the discourse of music and horror films / by Joe Tompkins -- A history of the (western) horror film. Horror before "the horror film" / by Harry Benshoff -- Classical Hollywood horror / by John Edgar Browning -- Horror in the 1940s / by Mark Jancovich -- Science fiction and horror in the 1950s / by Steffen Hantke -- The gothic revival (1957-1974) / by Rick Worland -- International horror in the 1970s / by Peter Hutchings -- Slasher films and gore in the 1980s / by James Kendrick -- Millennial fears: abject horror in a transnational context / by Adam Charles Hart -- Torture porn: 21st century horror / by Isabel C. Pinedo -- Selected international horror cinemas. Spanish horror cinema / by Ian Olney -- Italian horror and the mezzogiorno giallo / by Xavier Mendik -- Recent trends in Japanese horror cinema / by Jay Mcroy -- South Korean horror cinema / by Daniel Martin -- Sisterhood of terror: the monstrous feminine of Southeast Asian horror cinema / by Andrew Hock Soon Ng -- Selected archetypes, hybrids, and crossovers. Vampires and transnational horror / by Dale Hudson -- Trash horror and the cult of the bad film / by I. Q. Hunter -- "Moody three": revisiting Ken Russell's The devils / by Joan Hawkins -- Horror's otherness and ethnographic surrealism: the case of The shout / by Adam Llowenstein -- The documentary impulse and reel/real horror / by Caroline Joan S. Picart. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910132332803321 |
| Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A companion to the horror film / / edited by Harry M. Benshoff
| A companion to the horror film / / edited by Harry M. Benshoff |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (611 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.436164 |
| Soggetto topico | Horror films - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-119-33501-9
1-118-88360-8 1-118-88364-0 1-118-88349-7 1-118-88350-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Approaches and contexts. Cognitive and philosophical approaches to horror / by Aaron Smuts -- Horror and psychoanalysis: an introductory primer / by Chris Dumas -- Gender and sexuality haunts the horror film / by Daniel Humphrey -- The horror film as social allegory (and how it comes undone) / by Christopher Sharrett -- Avenging the body: disability in the horror film / by Travis Sutton -- Horror reception/audiences / by Matt Hills -- A's, b's, quickies, orphans, and nasties: horror films in the context of distribution and exhibition / by Kevin Heffernan -- Horror and the censors / by Julian Petley -- The form of horror. Carl Dreyer's corpse: horror film atmosphere and narrative by Robert Spadoni -- Horror sound design / by William Whittington -- Mellifluous terror: the discourse of music and horror films / by Joe Tompkins -- A history of the (western) horror film. Horror before "the horror film" / by Harry Benshoff -- Classical Hollywood horror / by John Edgar Browning -- Horror in the 1940s / by Mark Jancovich -- Science fiction and horror in the 1950s / by Steffen Hantke -- The gothic revival (1957-1974) / by Rick Worland -- International horror in the 1970s / by Peter Hutchings -- Slasher films and gore in the 1980s / by James Kendrick -- Millennial fears: abject horror in a transnational context / by Adam Charles Hart -- Torture porn: 21st century horror / by Isabel C. Pinedo -- Selected international horror cinemas. Spanish horror cinema / by Ian Olney -- Italian horror and the mezzogiorno giallo / by Xavier Mendik -- Recent trends in Japanese horror cinema / by Jay Mcroy -- South Korean horror cinema / by Daniel Martin -- Sisterhood of terror: the monstrous feminine of Southeast Asian horror cinema / by Andrew Hock Soon Ng -- Selected archetypes, hybrids, and crossovers. Vampires and transnational horror / by Dale Hudson -- Trash horror and the cult of the bad film / by I. Q. Hunter -- "Moody three": revisiting Ken Russell's The devils / by Joan Hawkins -- Horror's otherness and ethnographic surrealism: the case of The shout / by Adam Llowenstein -- The documentary impulse and reel/real horror / by Caroline Joan S. Picart. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910678008003321 |
| Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Contemporary Horror on Screen : An Evolving Visual Narrative / / edited by Sarah Baker, Amanda Rutherford, Richard Pamatatau
| Contemporary Horror on Screen : An Evolving Visual Narrative / / edited by Sarah Baker, Amanda Rutherford, Richard Pamatatau |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
| Disciplina | 791.436164 |
| Collana | Literature, Cultural and Media Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Popular culture
Culture - Study and teaching Motion pictures Mass media and culture Popular Culture Cultural Theory Film Studies Global Film and TV Media Culture |
| ISBN | 981-9949-65-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Panic Watching: On the Function of Consuming Fictional Pandemics during a Real Pandemic -- When corporate biology gets caught up with Mother nature: An analysis of the Netflix viral horror The Rain -- Representations of environmental apocalyptic horror in Greenland -- From Haaa! To OOO: The New Cycle of Killer Objects: The New Cycle of Killer Objects -- Hereditary’ s intergenerational curse -- Haunted Churches, Wicked Schools, Addressing Postcolonial History through Philippine Horror -- A Ghost Story and Micro-Cosmic Horror: Virginia Woolf’s Indifferent Fear -- Shifting Subjectivities: Adopting the perspective of the Other in Mother and Get Out -- Pedophobiac Audiences: Mapping the presence of the child in horror cinema -- Good for Her; Ready or Not’s Final Girl and the Rich, Patriarchal Family as Monster -- The It Duology: An Integrated Analysis of mainstream horror in the 2010s -- Why isn’t There Anybody? Isolation and Loneliness in Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Pulse -- Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones: A Failed Movie or a Movie Failed? -- The horror film and Donald trump: The revenge of minorities. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910746070503321 |
| Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The descent / / James Marriott [[electronic resource]]
| The descent / / James Marriott [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Marriott James <1972-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (186 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.436164 |
| Collana |
Devil's advocates
Liverpool scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico | Horror films |
| ISBN |
1-80034-210-1
1-80034-693-X 1-906733-95-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover ; Series Page; Series List; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Copyright; Contents ; Foreword; Introduction; The Descent; The Shock of the Old; Going Underground; One Million Years BC; Return to the Source; Chicks with Picks; Nightmares in a Damaged Brain; Family; Conclusion; Bibliography |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910520005903321 |
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| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2021 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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