Horror Film Reader

by Alain Silver

Overview

(Limelight). These essays offer a broad overview of the horror film genre, from the silent screen to Scream 3 , demonstrating how it remains defiantly, frighteningly alive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879102975
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/01/2004
Series:	Limelight
Edition description:	Illustrate
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.85(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction	3
Part 1	Seminal Essays
	Ghoulies and Ghosties	9
	Horror Films	21
	The Subconscious: From Pleasure Castle to Libido Hotel	39
	The Face of Horror	51
	A Bloody New Wave in the United States	63
	Horror Is My Business	67
	The Horror Film: Polanski and Repulsion	77
	From Voyeurism to Infinity	87
	Mario Bava: the Illusion of Reality	95
Part 2	New Perspectives
	Neglected Nightmares	111
	Is the Devil American? William Dieterle's The Devil and Daniel Webster	129
	Violence, Women, and Disability in Tod Browning's Freaks and The Devil Doll	151
	Monsters as (Uncanny) Metaphors: Freud, Lakoff, and the Representation of Monstrosity in Cinematic Horror	167
	The Anxiety of Influence: Georges Franju and the Medical Horror Shows of Jess Franco	193
	Seducing the Subject: Freddy Krueger	223
	What Rough Beast? Insect Politics and The Fly	237
	Demon Daddies: Gender, Ecstasy and Terror in the Possession Film	247
	Women on the Verge of a Gothic Breakdown: Sex, Drugs and Corpses in The Horrible Dr. Hichcock	269
	Candyman: Urban Space, Fear, and Entitlement	281
	The Haunting and the Power of Suggestion: Why Robert Wise's Film Continues to "Deliver the Goods" to Modern Audiences	305
	Notes on Contributors	317

Editorial Reviews

This anthology of 20 essays features a mix of overview pieces, studies of individual films or series, genre perspectives, and auteurist analyses. The first nine essays are reprints from 1952-1975. There are numerous black and white movie stills. No index is provided. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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