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Horror, the film reader /

Key articles and essays introduce students to debates over the definition of the horror film as a genre, its sexual politics, and its conditions of production and consumption.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jancovich, Mark
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Colección:In focus--Routledge film readers.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The American nightmare: horror in the 70s / Robin Wood
  • Why horror? / Noel Carroll
  • Why horror? The peculiar pleasures of a popular genre / Andrew Tudor
  • When the woman looks / Linda Williams
  • Horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection / Barbara Creed
  • Her body, himself: gender in the slasher film / Carol J. Clover
  • The monster and the homosexual / Harry M. Benshoff
  • Production and reproduction: the case of Frankenstein / Paul O'Flinn
  • The problem of British horror / Peter Hutchings
  • Sleaze mania, Euro-trash, and high art: the place of European art films in American low culture / Joan Hawkins
  • Horror for sale: the marketing and reception of classic horror cinema / Rhona Berenstein
  • Genre and the audience: genre classifications and cultural distinctions in the mediation of The Silence of the Lambs / Mark Jancovich
  • Learning to scream / Linda Williams
  • Refusing to refuse to look: female viewers of the horror film / Brigid Cherry.