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A history of horror /
Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. A History of Horror, with rare stills from classic films, is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre. Chrono...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2010]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. A History of Horror, with rare stills from classic films, is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre. Chronologically examining over fifty horror films from key periods, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of legendary characters and explores how the genre fits into the Hollywood studio system and how its enormous success in American and European culture expanded globally over time.-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references, webliography, and filmography (pages 211-222) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813550398 0813550394 1283383268 9781283383264 9786613383266 6613383260 |