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The horror film : an introduction
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- Creator
- Rick Worland
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007
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- Physical Details
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- xii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1405139013, 9781405139014, 1405139021, 9781405139021
- OCLC
- ocm69241529
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-303) and index.
- Introduction : undying monsters -- A short history of the horror film : beginnings to 1945 -- A short history of the horror film : 1945 to the present -- Monsters among us : cases of social reception -- Edges of the horror film : Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, and The unknown (1927) -- Frankenstein (1931) and Hollywood expressionism -- Cat people (1942) : Lewton, Freud, and suggestive horror -- Horror in "the age of anxiety" : Invasion of the body snatchers (1956) -- Slaughtering genre tradition : The Texas chain saw massacre (1974) -- Halloween (1978) : the shape of the slasher film -- Re-animator (1985) and slapstick horror -- Demon lover : Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) -- Afterword : our haunted houses -- Appendix: Horror auteurs