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Shock value : how a few eccentric outsiders gave us nightmares, conquered Hollywood, and invented modern horror / Jason Zinoman.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.H6 Z56 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zinoman, Jason.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--United States--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Penguin Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Based on unprecedented access to the genre's major players, "New York Times" film critic Zinoman delivers the first definitive account of horror's golden age--the 1970s, when such directors as Wes Craven, Roman Polanski, John Carpenter, and Brian De Palma redefined the genre.
- Contents:
- The Devil's advocate
- The problem with Psycho
- Blood brothers
- Assaulting the audience
- Shock or awe
- The monster problem
- The dance of death
- He likes to watch
- The thing in-between
- Stomaching it
- The fear sickness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-262) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594203022 :
- 1594203024
- OCLC:
- 681488403
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