Terrifying texts : essays on books of good and evil in horror cinema / edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Cynthia J., 1958- editor.

Van Riper, A. Bowdoin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Books in motion pictures.

Good and evil in motion pictures.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 260 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]

Summary:

"This collection of new essays examines nearly a century of genre horror in which on-screen texts drive and shape their narratives, sometimes unnoticed. The contributors explore familiar American films like The Night of the Demon (1957) and The Evil Dead (1981), as well as such international films as Eric Valette's Malefique (2002) and Paco Cabeza's The Appeared (2007)"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Lovecraft and his legacy. Monstrous Writing, Writing Monsters: Authoring Manuscripts, Ontological Horror and Human Agency / Michael Fuchs

That Monstrous Book: The Necronomicon and Its Cinematic Contents / Michael E. Heyes

Paperback Necronomicon: Occult Authorship in John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness / Murray Leeder

The Book with a Thousand Faces: The Evolution of the Necronomicon in the Evil Dead Universe / Martin J. Auernheimer

Books of hope and despair. The Magic Book and the Magic of Books in Murnau's Faust (1926) / Thomas Prasch

Apocryphal Horror: Understanding Evil through Lost Books of the Bible / Jeffrey M. Tripp

Losing Your Faith for Seeing Too Much:Ê The Anti-Bible as Indictment of American Heroism in Gregory Widen's The Prophecy / Mark Henderson

I(dio)t Follows: The Seashell E-Book in It Follows / Learned Foote

Perspectives on the Babadook. "The more you deny me, the stronger I get": "Mister Babadook" and the Monstrous Empowerment of Children's Culture / Jessica Balanzategui

Mediating Trauma in Jennifer Kent's The Babadook / Michael C. Reiff

Bad Books and Fairy Tales: Stigmatized Guardians in The Turn of the Screw and The Babadook / Austin Reide

Diaries and scrapbooks. Dreadful Girl Diaries and the Promise of Transparent Girlhood / Karen J. Renner

"Do not read the Latin": The Summoning Diary in Horror Film / Lisa Cunningham

"That book lies!" Lost Texts and Hidden Horrors in The Whisperer in Darkness / A. Bowdoin Van Riper

Witches, demons, and curses. Spellbound: The Significance of Spellbooks in the Depiction of Witchcraft on Screen / Emily Brick

Horror Comedy by the Book: Grimoire, Carnival and Heteroglossia in Kenny Ortega's Hocus Pocus (1993) / Sue Matheson

Unraveling Julian Karswell's Runic Curse in Jacques Tourneur's Night of the Demon / Michael Furlong

International takes. Logical Horror:ÊAxiomatic Magic and Strategic Murder in Death Note / Richard J. Leskosky

Grotesque Adaptations: Bodies of Knowledge in Maléfique (2002) / Cynthia J. Miller

The Appeared (2007) by Paco Cabezas: Redefining the Book of Hidden Memories and Cyclical Time / Graciela Tissera

"No one who sees it lives to describe it": The Book of Eibon and Power of the Unseeable in Lucio Fulci's The Beyond / Philip L. Simpson

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476671307

1476671303

OCLC:

1050456726

Publisher Number:

40028527990