Planks of reason

Scarecrow Press

1984

428 pages

9780810817135

The mummy's pool / Bruce Kawin -Faith and idolatry in the horror film / J.P. Telotte -Conditions of pleasure in horror cinema / Dennis Giles -Monster movies: a sexual theory / Walter Evans -The Aesthetics of fright / Morris Dickstein -The Gothic: a literary genre's transition to film / Charlene Bunnell -Subgenres in horror pictures: the pentagram, Faust and Philotetes / Joseph Reed -The witch in film: myth and reality / Sharon Russell -'Canyons of nightmare': the Jewish horror film/ Lester D. Friedman -Daughters of darkness: the Lesbian vampire on film / Bonnie Zimmerman -An introduction to the American horror film / Robin Wood -Eros and Syphilization: the contemporary horror film / Dana B. Polan -King Kong: Ape and essence / Noel Carroll -Film, society and ideas: Nosferatu and Horror of Dracula / Lane Roth -The idea of Apocalypse in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre / Christopher Sharrett -Archetypal landscape and Jaws / Jonathan Lemkin -The comic and the grotesque in James Whale's Frankenstein films / Janice R. Welsch and Syndy M. Conger -Biological alchemy and the films of David Cronenberg / Mary B. Campbell -The enemy within: the economy of violence in The Hills Have Eyes / D.N. Rodowick -Halloween: suspense, aggression and the look / Steve Neale -Enunciation and the production of horror in White Zombie / Edward Lowry and Richard deCordova.

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