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Author : Denis Gifford
Release : 1983
Genre : Horror films
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Book Rating : 087/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Pictorial History of Horror Movies by : Denis Gifford
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Author : Brad Weismann
Release : 2021-04-22
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 236/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lost in the Dark by : Brad Weismann
Download or read book Lost in the Dark written by Brad Weismann. This book was released on 2021-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them—The Shape of Water—won. Since 1990, the production of horror films has risen exponentially worldwide, and in 2013, horror films earned an estimated $400 million in ticket sales. Horror has long been the most popular film genre, and more horror movies have been made than any other kind. We need them. We need to be scared, to test ourselves, laugh inappropriately, scream, and flinch. We need to get through them and come out, blinking, still in one piece. Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film is a straightforward history written for the general reader and student that can serve as a comprehensive reference work. The volume provides a general introduction to the genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, and celebrates its practitioners, trends, and stories. Starting with silent-era horror films and ending with 2020’s The Invisible Man, Lost in the Dark looks at decades of horror movies. Author Brad Weismann covers such topics as the roots of horror in literature and art, monster movies, B-movies, the destruction of the American censorship system, international horror, torture porn, zombies, horror comedies, horror in the new millennium, and critical reception of modern horror. A sweeping survey that doesn’t scrimp on details, Lost in the Dark is sure to satisfy both the curious and the completist.
Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Release : 2010-08-24
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 394/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Horror by : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Download or read book A History of Horror written by Wheeler Winston Dixon. This book was released on 2010-08-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of Horror is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre. Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman and their various incarnations in film from the silent era to comedic sequels. A History of Horror explores how the horror film fits into the Hollywood studio system and how its enormous success in American and European culture expanded globally over time. Dixon examines key periods in the horror film-in which the basic precepts of the genre were established, then banished into conveniently reliable and malleable forms, and then, after collapsing into parody, rose again and again to create new levels of intensity and menace. A History of Horror, supported by rare stills from classic films, brings over fifty timeless horror films into frightfully clear focus, zooms in on today's top horror Web sites, and champions the stars, directors, and subgenres that make the horror film so exciting and popular with contemporary audiences.
Author : Tom Hutchinson
Release : 1984-11-01
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 557/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Horrors by : Tom Hutchinson
Download or read book Horrors written by Tom Hutchinson. This book was released on 1984-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical commentary accompanies hundreds of stills from horror movies featuring Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, werewolves, aliens, prehistoric creatues, the undead, and mad scientists
Author : Carlos Clarens
Release : 1967
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis An Illustrated History of the Horror Films by : Carlos Clarens
Download or read book An Illustrated History of the Horror Films written by Carlos Clarens. This book was released on 1967. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
