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The pocket essential horror films / Colin Odell & Michelle Le Blanc.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Odell, Colin.
- Series:
- Pocket essentials. Film
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--Miscellanea.
- Horror films.
- Horror films--Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (96 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Harpenden : Pocket Essentials, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Full of facts, opinions and useful information, Horror Films treats the genre with great respect. The authors brush aside the implication that horror films are trashy and juvenile and cover the subject in depth in this compact reference.
- Contents:
- HORROR FILMS
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- What Is Horror?
- Order - Chaos - Reconstruction
- The Monster
- The Viewer: Voyeur, Victim, Violator
- The Scare And The Thrill
- How To Use This Book
- Silents Are Golden
- The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1919)
- The Phantom Of The Opera (1925)
- From Gold To Lead: The Thirties And Forties
- King Kong (1933)
- The Ghoul (1933)
- Dead Of Night (1945)
- You'd Be Paranoid If You Knew You Were Next: The Fifties
- The Quatermass Experiment (1955)
- Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)
- Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without A Face) (1959)
- Psychos And Swingers: The Sixties
- Peeping Tom (1960)
- The Masque Of The Red Death (1964)
- Rosemary's Baby (1968)
- The Decade That Taste Forgot: The Seventies
- Theater Of Blood (1972)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
- Suppression And Repetition: The Eighties
- The Evil Dead (1982)
- The Thing (1982)
- Spoorloos (The Vanishing) (1988)
- My, Aren't We So Postmodern Now: The Nineties
- Braindead (1992)
- Dust Devil (1995)
- The Blair Witch Project (1999)
- Ten Terrifying Auteurs
- Tod Browning (1882-1962)
- James Whale (1889-1957)
- Val Lewton (1904-1951)
- Terence Fisher (1904-1980)
- George A Romero (1940-)
- Dario Argento (1940-)
- David Cronenberg (1943-)
- Joe Dante (1946-)
- Wes Craven (1949-)
- Clive Barker (1952-)
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- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 70767616
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