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Language: en
Pages: 244
Pages: 244
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-07-22 - Publisher: McFarland
The crack of thunder, a blood-curdling scream, creaking doors, or maybe complete silence. Sounds such as these have helped frighten and startle horror movie aud
Language: en
Pages: 281
Pages: 281
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-02-09 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press
In this volume, Stephen Prince has collected essays reviewing the history of the horror film and the psychological reasons for its persistent appeal, as well as
Language: en
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-27 - Publisher: McFarland
Critics have traditionally characterized classic horror by its use of shadow and suggestion. Yet the graphic nature of early 1930s films only came to light in t
Language: en
Pages: 284
Pages: 284
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Focusing on recent postmodern examples, this is a collection of essays reviewing the history of the horror film and the psychological reasons for its persistent
Language: en
Pages: 286
Pages: 286
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-30 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self—or so goes the old saw from fans and scholars alike.
