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Horror Unmasked : A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weismann, Brad.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Genre:
- Film criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (481 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : becker&mayer! books, 2023.
- Summary:
- Horror Unmasked offers a general introduction to the popular film genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, and celebrates its practitioners, trends, and stories.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- World Map of Horror
- Introduction
- 1 Shadowy Silence: Horror Before Sound
- 2 Browning and Chaney: The Father of Freaks and the Man of a Thousand Faces
- 3 Monster Central: The Great Horror Cycles Begin
- 4 Cranking Out the Creepies: Horror in the 1930s and 1940s
- 5 Val Lewton and the Terrors of the Unseen
- 6 Atomic-Age Monsters: The Sci-Fi/Horror Boom
- 7 Blood and Bosoms: The Success of Hammer Horror
- 8 The Moment of Shock: Psycho and Peeping Tom
- 9 The Corman Poes and the Peerless Vincent Price
- 10 Horror, Italian Style
- 11 All Hell Breaks Loose, 1960-1975
- 12 Bloody England: Hammer's Competitors
- 13 The Sleep of Reason: Horror in Spanish
- 14 Godzilla &
- Co: Far East Horror in Transition
- 15 Polanski, Coffin Joe, and Others
- 16 Clark, Craven, Carpenter, and Cronenberg
- 17 Mainstream Horror or: Bring the Kids!
- 18 J- and K-Horror, and Other Asian Entries
- 19 The Problem of Torture Porn
- 20 Zombies!
- 21 There's Usually a Gorilla: Horror-Comedies
- 22 Masters for a New Millennium
- 23 Is Horror Legit?
- 24 Post-Horror and Beyond
- Glossary: Subgenres of Horror
- Notes
- Image Credits
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Weismann, Brad Horror Unmasked
- ISBN:
- 9780760376805
- 0760376808
- OCLC:
- 1382694914
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