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100	1		_aKawin, Bruce F., _d1945- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHorror and the horror film / _cBruce F. Kawin.
246	3		_aHorror & the Horror Film
264		1	_aLondon : _bAnthem Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (xv, 252 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
505	0		_apt. 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.
505	0		_a5. 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.
520			_aHorror films can be profound fables of human nature and important works of art, yet many people dismiss them out of hand. {u0091}Horror and the Horror Film{u0092} 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 {u0096} such as the vampire movie {u0096} from 1896 to the present. It covers the entire genre by considering every kind of monster in it, including the human.
650		0	_aHorror films _xHistory and criticism.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780857284495
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