Horror and the horror film /
Horror & the Horror Film
Bruce F. Kawin.
- 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
pt. I. Approaching the genre -- 1. Horror -- Overview -- Origins -- Defining horror -- Taking it all in -- Spectacle and suggestion -- Nightmares and forbidden texts -- Real and imagined horror -- Endings -- Recurring elements -- Beauty -- Reflexivity -- Appeal -- Frames and windows -- 2. The monster at the bedroom window -- Tarantula -- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari -- Nosferatu -- Frankenstein -- King Kong -- The Mummy's Tomb and others -- Back to the Tarantula -- 3. Fear in a frame -- Dreams and reflexivity in Vampyr -- Narrative structure in Dead of Night -- The unfilmable in Peeping Tom -- The Mummy's Tale -- Categories -- pt. II. Subgenres : the book of monsters -- 4. Monsters -- Transforming monsters : Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde and The Thing -- Constructed monsters : Frankenstein -- Composite monsters : Island of Lost Souls and The Fly -- Giants : King Kong and Them! -- Little people : THe Devil-Doll -- Animals : Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Birds and Jurassic Park -- Body parts : The Beast with Five Fingers -- Monsters from outer space : The Thing from Another World and Alien -- Monsters from the lab :'You Made Us Things!' -- Monsters from underwater : It Came from Beneath the Sea -- Plants : Invasion of the Body Snatchers -- Minerals : The Monolith Monsters -- Amorphous monsters : The Blob -- Child monsters : It's Alive, The Brood and The Funhouse -- Parasite : Shivers -- Machines : The Car -- Monsters from underground : The Descent. 5. Supernatural monsters -- Demons and the devil : Faust and The Evil Dead -- Doubles : The Student of Prague -- Vampires : Nosferatu and Dracula -- Witches : Häxan and Suspiria -- Ghosts : The Uninvited and Ringu -- Zombies : White Zombie and Night of the Living Dead -- Mummies : The Mummy's Ghost -- Others back from the dead : The Walking Dead -- Werewolves and other shape-shifters : The Wolf Man and Cat People -- Legendary figures : Candyman -- Nameless forces : Final Destination -- Immortal slashers : Michael, Jason and Freddy -- 6. Humans -- Mad scientists and doctors : Caligari and Mad Love -- Romantics : The Phantom of the Opera -- Human anomalies : Freaks -- Artists : Mystery of the Wax Museum and In the Mouth of Madness -- Believers : The Black Cat, Blood Feast and The Wicker Man -- Sadists and torturers : The Raven, Salò and Hostel -- Ghouls : The Body Snatcher and Ed Gein -- Mad killers : Psycho and Henry : Portrait of a Serial Killer -- Families : The Last House on the Left and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre -- Psychics and Telekinetics : Carrie and Scanners -- The infected : Rabid and 28 Days Later -- Cannibals : Eaten Alive! and Cannibal Holocaust -- Slashers : Scream -- pt. III. Related genres -- 7. Horror comedy -- Monster comedies : Young Frankenstein -- Supernatural comedies : The Return of the Living Dead -- Human comedies : Arsenic and Old Lace -- 8. Horror documentary -- Death on camera -- Autopsy : The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes -- Looking at horror.
Horror films can be profound fables of human nature and important works of art, yet many people dismiss them out of hand. Horror and the Horror Film conveys a mature appreciation for horror films along with a comprehensive view of their narrative strategies, their relations to reality and fantasy and their cinematic power. The volume covers the horror film and its subgenres such as the vampire movie from 1896 to the present. It covers the entire genre by considering every kind of monster in it, including the human.