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The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Jon Towlson
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-12 - Publisher: McFarland

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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
The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Jon Towlson
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-27 - Publisher: McFarland

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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
Sound in the American Horror Film
Language: en
Pages: 244
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Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-07-11 - Publisher: McFarland

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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
The Cambridge Companion to American Horror
Language: en
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Opening up the warm body of American Horror – through literature, film, TV, music, video games, and a host of other mediums – this book gathers the leading
Candyman
Language: en
Pages: 135
Authors: Jon Towlson
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-15 - Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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Jon Towlson considers how Candyman might be read both as a "return of the repressed" and as an example of nineties neoconservative horror. He traces the film's