A Companion to the Horror Film (eBook)
608 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-88350-1 (ISBN)
* Contributors include many of the finest academics working in the field, as well as exciting younger scholars
* Varied and comprehensive coverage, from the history of horror to broader issues of censorship, gender, and sexuality
* Covers both English-language and non-English horror film traditions
* Key topics include horror film aesthetics, theoretical approaches, distribution, art house cinema, ethnographic surrealism, and horror's relation to documentary film practice
* A thorough treatment of this dynamic film genre suited to scholars and enthusiasts alike
Harry M. Benshoff is Professor of Radio, TV, and Film at the University of North Texas, USA. His research interests include topics in film genre, film history, film theory, and multiculturalism. The author of several books on cinema, he is best known for work that explores sexuality in relation to the horror film, including Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (1997). He is also co-author of Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America (2006), and America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies, Second edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2009).
Notes on Contributors viii
Preface xiii
Part I Approaches and Contexts 1
1 Cognitive and Philosophical Approaches to Horror 3
Aaron Smuts
2 Horror and Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Primer 21
Chris Dumas
3 Gender and Sexuality Haunts the Horror Film 38
Daniel Humphrey
4 The Horror Film as Social Allegory (And How it Comes Undone) 56
Christopher Sharrett
5 Avenging the Body: Disability in the Horror Film 73
Travis Sutton
6 Horror Reception/Audiences 90
Matt Hills
7 A's, B's, Quickies, Orphans, and Nasties: Horror Films in the Context of Distribution and Exhibition 109
Kevin Heffernan
8 Horror and the Censors 130
Julian Petley
Part II The Form of Horror 149
9 Carl Dreyer's Corpse: Horror Film Atmosphere and Narrative 151
Robert Spadoni
10 Horror Sound Design 168
William Whittington
11 Mellifluous Terror:The Discourse of Music and Horror Films 186
Joe Tompkins
Part III A History of the (Western) Horror Film 205
12 Horror Before "The Horror Film" 207
Harry M. Benshoff
13 Classical Hollywood Horror 225
John Edgar Browning
14 Horror in the 1940s 237
Mark Jancovich
15 Science Fiction and Horror in the 1950s 255
Steffen Hantke
16 The Gothic Revival (1957-1974) 273
RickWorland
17 International Horror in the 1970s 292
Peter Hutchings
18 Slasher Films and Gore in the 1980s 310
James Kendrick
19 Millennial Fears: Abject Horror in a Transnational Context 329
Adam Charles Hart
20 Torture Porn: 21st Century Horror 345
Isabel C. Pinedo
Part IV Selected International Horror Cinemas 363
21 Spanish Horror Cinema 365
Ian Olney
22 The Return of the Rural Repressed: Italian Horror and the Mezzogiorno Giallo 390
Xavier Mendik
23 Recent Trends in Japanese Horror Cinema 406
Jay McRoy
24 South Korean Horror Cinema 423
Daniel Martin
25 Sisterhood of Terror:The Monstrous Feminine of Southeast Asian Horror Cinema 442
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
Part V Selected Archetypes, Hybrids, and Crossovers 461
26 Vampires and Transnational Horror 463
Dale Hudson
27 Trash Horror and the Cult of the Bad Film 483
I. Q. Hunter
28 "MoodyThree": Revisiting Ken Russell's The Devils 501
Joan Hawkins
29 Horror's Otherness and Ethnographic Surrealism: The Case of The Shout 519
Adam Lowenstein
30 The Documentary Impulse and Reel/Real Horror 536
Caroline Joan S. Picart
Index 554
"Historically comprehensive while refreshingly up-to-date, Harry
M. Benshoff's A Companion to the Horror Film provides a
much-needed, state-of-the-art overview of an endlessly mutating
genre and its ever-evolving criticism. A must-have volume for any
popular culture studies bookshelf."
David J. Skal, author of The Monster Show: A Cultural
History of Horror
"Benshoff's Companion, like his previous
work, is an all encompassing look at the changing definition of
horror and inclusive of cult and camp's greatest hits. A new
must-have for theory-goers!"
Jeffrey Schwarz, Director of I Am Divine, Vito
and Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.7.2014 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Cultural Studies • Filmforschung • Film Studies • Filmtheorie • Film theory • Geschichte des Filmtheaters • History of Cinema • Horrorfilm • Kulturwissenschaften |
ISBN-10 | 1-118-88350-0 / 1118883500 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-118-88350-1 / 9781118883501 |
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