| Description |
viii, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Ian Conrich -- Industry, Technology and the New Media -- Dark Rides, Hybrid Machines and the Horror Experience -/ Angela Ndalianis -- High Concept Thrills and Chills: The Horror Blockbuster / Stacey Abbott -- Bringing it All Back Home: Horror Cinema and Video Culture / Linda Badley -- Audiences, Fans, and Consumption -- Stalking the Web: Celebration, Chat and Horror Film Marketing on the Internet / Brigid Cherry -- Attending Horror Film Festivals and Conventions: Liveness, Subcultural Capital and "Flesh-and-Blood Genre Communities" / Matt Hills -- Trashing the Academy: Taste, Excess and an Emerging Politics of Cinematic Style / Jeffrey Sconce -- Terrifying Toys and Tie-ins: The Material Culture of Horror Cinema / Ian Conrich -- Manufacture and Design -- They're Here!: Special Effects in the Horror Cinema of the 1970s and 1980s / Ernest Mathijs -- Making Up Monsters: Set and Costume Design in Horror Films / Tamao Nakahara -- Culture Wars: Some New Trends in Art Horror / Joan Hawkins -- Boundaries of Horror -- "Parts is Parts": Pornography, Splatter Films and the Politics of Corporeal Disintegration / Jay Mcroy -- Nazi Horror Films / Julian Petley -- Better the Devil You Know: Antichrists at the Millennium / Mick Broderick -- Feminine Boundaries: Adolescence, Witchcraft and Magic in Contemporary Cinema and Television / Estella Tincknell -- Impaired Visions: the Cultural and Cinematic Politics of Blindness in the Horror Film / Angela Marie Smith. |
| Subject |
Horror films -- History and criticism.
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| Alternate Author |
Conrich, Ian.
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| ISBN |
9781848851511 (pbk.) |
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1848851510 (pbk.) |
| Call Number |
PN1995.9.H6 H77 2010 |
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