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The American Horror Film
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Reynold Humphries
Categories: Horror films
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher:

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An overview of the horror movie genre, this book moves from Dracula in 1931 to contemporary films, and treats recurring characters and themes, as well as key di
American Horror Film
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: Steffen Hantke
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-30 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self—or so goes the old saw from fans and scholars alike.
Hearths of Darkness
Language: en
Pages: 526
Authors: Tony Williams
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-27 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film traces the origins of the 1970s family horror subgenre to certain aspects of American culture and cl
Horror Noire
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Robin R. Means Coleman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular cultur
Robin Wood on the Horror Film
Language: en
Pages: 399
Authors: Robin Wood
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-12 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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Robin Wood’s writing on the horror film, published over five decades, collected in one volume. Robin Wood—one of the foremost critics of cinema—has laid t