Horror Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Horror Cinema write by Jonathan Penner. This book was released on 2017. Horror Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Get ready to quake in fear with this revised and expanded edition of our history of horror cinema. From serial killers to satanists, The Shining to Scream, some 600 pages explore the genre's favorite themes, mythologies, and motifs, and get up close and trembling to 50 top horror masterworks from the 1920s to the 2000s.
Korean Horror Cinema
Korean Horror Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Korean Horror Cinema write by Alison Peirse. This book was released on 2013-03-14. Korean Horror Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the first detailed English-language book on the subject, Korean Horror Cinema introduces the cultural specificity of the genre to an international audience, from the iconic monsters of gothic horror, such as the wonhon (vengeful female ghost) and the gumiho (shapeshifting fox), to the avenging killers of Oldboy and Death Bell. Beginning in the 1960s with The Housemaid, it traces a path through the history of Korean horror, offering new interpretations of classic films, demarcating the shifting patterns of production and consumption across the decades, and introducing readers to films rarely seen and discussed outside of Korea. It explores the importance of folklore and myth on horror film narratives, the impact of political and social change upon the genre, and accounts for the transnational triumph of some of Korea's contemporary horror films. While covering some of the most successful recent films such as Thirst, A Tale of Two Sisters, and Phone, the collection also explores the obscure, the arcane and the little-known outside Korea, including detailed analyses of The Devil's Stairway, Woman's Wail and The Fox With Nine Tails. Its exploration and definition of the canon makes it an engaging and essential read for students and scholars in horror film studies and Korean Studies alike.
Masks in Horror Cinema
Masks in Horror Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Masks in Horror Cinema write by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Masks in Horror Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors have a direct impact on mask-centric horror cinema: meanings, values and rituals associated with masks evolve and are updated in horror cinema to reflect new contexts, rendering the mask a persistent, meaningful and dynamic aspect of the genre’s iconography. This study debates horror cinema’s durability as a site for the potency of the mask’s broader symbolic power to be constantly re-explored, re-imagined and re-invented as an object of cross-cultural and ritual significance that existed long before the moving image culture of cinema.
Horror Franchise Cinema
Horror Franchise Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Horror Franchise Cinema write by Mark McKenna. This book was released on 2021-09-30. Horror Franchise Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores horror film franchising from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives and considers the horror film’s role in the history of franchising and serial fiction. Comprising 12 chapters written by established and emerging scholars in the field, Horror Franchise Cinema redresses critical neglect toward horror film franchising by discussing the forces and factors governing its development across historical and contemporary terrain while also examining text and reception practices. Offering an introduction to the history of horror franchising, the chapters also examine key texts including Universal Studio monster films, Blumhouse production films, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Alien, I Spit on Your Grave, Let the Right One In, Italian zombie films, anthology films, and virtual reality. A significant contribution to studies of horror cinema and film/media franchising from the 1930s to the present day, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of film studies, media and cultural studies, franchise studies, political economy, audience/reception studies, horror studies, fan studies, genre studies, production cultures, and film histories.
Primal Roots of Horror Cinema
Primal Roots of Horror Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Primal Roots of Horror Cinema write by Carrol L. Fry. This book was released on 2019-04-02. Primal Roots of Horror Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why is horror in film and literature so popular? Why do viewers and readers enjoy feeling fearful? Experts in the fields of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology posit that behaviors from our ancestors that favored survival and adaptation still influence our actions, decisions and thoughts today. The author, with input from a new generation of Darwinists, explores six primal narratives that recur in the horror genre. They are territoriality, tribalism, fear of genetic assimilation, mating rituals, fear of the predator, and distrust or fear of the Other.
