The aesthetics of horror films : a Santayanan perspective / / Forrest Adam Sopuck |
Autore | Sopuck Forrest Adam |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (137 pages) |
Disciplina | 791.436164 |
Soggetto topico | Horror films - History and criticism |
ISBN | 3-030-84346-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910502982903321 |
Sopuck Forrest Adam | ||
Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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 |
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 |
Soister John T. <1950-> | ||
Jefferson, N.C., : McFarland & Co., Inc., c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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-> | ||
Jefferson, N.C., : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Australian horror films, 1973-2010 / / 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-9910823065103321 |
Shelley Peter <1962-> | ||
Jefferson, N.C., : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Baroque aesthetics in contemporary American horror / / Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez |
Autore | Eljaiek-Rodríguez Gabriel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 791.436164 |
Soggetto topico |
Horror films - United States - History and criticism
Horror television programs |
ISBN | 3-030-88251-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910512187003321 |
Eljaiek-Rodríguez Gabriel | ||
Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Contemporary Horror on Screen : An Evolving Visual Narrative / / Sarah Baker, Amanda Rutherford, and Richard Pamatatau, editors |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., , [2023] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
Disciplina | 791.436164 |
Soggetto topico | Horror films - History and criticism |
ISBN | 981-9949-65-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- References -- Part I The Environment and Climatic Apocalyptic Events as a Threat on Humanity -- 2 Panic Watching: On the Function of Consuming Fictional Pandemics During a Real Pandemic -- Outbreak/Pandemic Films and COVID-19 -- Functions of Watching Outbreak Films -- Outbreak and Contagion -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 When Corporate Biology Gets Caught up with Mother Nature: An Analysis of the Netflix Viral Horror the Rain -- References -- 4 Representations of Environmental Apocalyptic Horror in Greenland (2020) -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 From Haaa! to OOO: The New Cycle of Killer Objects: The New Cycle of Killer Objects -- The Posthuman and the Horror Genre -- Posthumanism and OOO: Brief Sketches -- The Horror Politics of OOO -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II Ritual, Rite and Curses as Horror in the Disintegration of Family and Community -- 6 Hereditary's Intergenerational Curse -- Audience Reception -- Hidden Secrets -- Family Disintegration -- Bad Mothers -- The Occult and Paimon -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Haunted Churches, Wicked Schools, Addressing Postcolonial History Through Philippine Horror -- Horror and Horror Cinema -- (Postcolonial) Gothic and Philippine Consequences -- Analysis of Seklusyon -- Analysis of Eerie -- Reflections and Conclusions -- References -- 8 A Ghost Story and Micro-Cosmic Horror: Virginia Woolf's Indifferent Fear -- References -- 9 Shifting Subjectivities: Adopting the Perspective of the Other in Mother and Get Out -- Othering in Horror -- Shifting Perspectives -- Internalising the Threat -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 Pedophobiac Audiences: Mapping the Presence of the Child in Horror Cinema -- References -- 11 Good for Her -- Ready or Not's Final Girl and the Rich, Patriarchal Family as Monster.
Carol Clover's Final Girl -- Ready or Not as Slasher -- Ready or Not's Final Girl -- The Monstrous Le Domas Family -- Intergenerational Wealth -- The Patriarchal Ritual -- Marriage -- Grace as a White Final Girl -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Horrors of Political Agenda and Leadership: The Rise of Nations Against their People -- 12 The It Duology: An Integrated Analysis of Mainstream Horror in the 2010s -- IT and IT: Chapter 2 -- The Framework -- Sociohistorical Factors: The Evil Politics of Trump and Clowns -- Industrial Factors: New Line, High Concept Event Horror, and Nostalgia -- Psychological Factors: The Appeal of Evil Clowns in the Trump Era -- Conclusion -- References -- 13 Why Isn't There Anybody? Isolation and Loneliness in Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Pulse -- An Emptying Society: The Liquification of Japan in the Lost Decade -- The Liquification of Japan: Categorical Instability in the Lost Decades -- Visualising Chaos: Fear of Technological Isolation -- Dare Mo Inai: When Isolation is Channelled Through Technology -- Conclusion -- References -- 14 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones: A Failed Movie or a Movie Failed? -- References -- 15 The Horror Film and Donald Trump: The Revenge of Minorities -- The Donald Trump Election -- The Horror Film -- Jason Blum and the Horror Film -- Horror Film and the Black Power -- Horror Movie and Girl-Power -- References. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910746070503321 |
Singapore : , : Springer, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., , [2023] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
Marriott James <1972-> | ||
Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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-9910543259203321 |
Marriott James <1972-> | ||
Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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