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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. Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of Horror is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre. Arranged by dec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of Horror is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre. Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman and their various incarnations in film from the silent era to comedic sequels. A History of Horror explores how the horror f.
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813547961