Planks of reason : essays on the horror film / edited by Barry Keith Grant and Christopher Sharrett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-

Sharrett, Christopher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Physical Description:

xv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.

Contents:

The mummy's pool / Bruce Kawin

Faith and idolatry in the horror film / J.P. Telotte

Conditions of pleasure in horror cinema / Dennis Giles

The aesthetics of fright / Morris Dickstein

The witch in film : myth and reality / Sharon Russell

Daughters of darkness : the lesbian vampire on film / Bonnie Zimmerman

'Canyons of nightmare': the Jewish horror film / Lester D. Friedman

An introduction to the American horror film / Robin Wood

Eros and syphilization : the contemporary horror film / Dana B. Polan

Rich and strange : the yuppie horror film / Barry Keith Grant

Enunciation and the production of horror in White zombie / Edward Lowry and Richard Decordova

King Kong : ape and essence / Noel Carroll

The comic and the grotesque in James Whale's Frankenstein films / Janice R. Welsch and Syndy M. Conger

Film, society and ideas : Nosferatu and horror of Dracula / Lane Roth

Ritual, tension and relief : the terror of The tingler / Mikita Brottman

AIP's Pit and the pendulum : Poe as drive-in gothic / Rick Worland

The idea of apocalypse in The Texas chainsaw massacre / Christopher Sharrett

Archetypal landscape and Jaws / Jonathan Lemkin

Biological alchemy and the films of David Cronenberg / Mary B. Campbell

The enemy within : the economy of violence in The hills have eyes / D.N. Rodowick

Halloween : suspense, aggression and the look / Steve Neale

Demons in the family : tracking the Japanese "uncanny mother film" from A page of madness to Ringu / Ruth Goldberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-395) and index.

ISBN:

0810850133

OCLC:

54817403