Abject terrors; surveying the modern and postmodern horror film.0820470562 Abject terrors; surveying the modern and postmodern horror film horror film n → película de terror or miedo horror film horror n → film m d'épouvante horror film horror n . Magistrale, Tony. Peter Lang Publishing Inc 2005 213 pages $29.95 Paperback PN1995 Magistrale (English, U. of Vermont) surveys horror films from the 1920s to the twenty-first century, tracing the development of the genre and its sub-genres as well as elements of modernism and postmodernism in them. The discussion encompasses vampire films, the works of Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick Noun 1. Stanley Kubrick - United States filmmaker (born in 1928) Kubrick , alien and slasher films, and parodies. Some of the films examined are and Nosferatu, Interview with a Vampire, Frankenstein, Psycho, The Exorcist ex·or·cism n. 1. The act, practice, or ceremony of exorcising. 2. A formula used in exorcising. ex  or·cist n. , Fatal Attraction, The Shining, Eyes
Wide Shut, Halloween, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Scream. The
book includes a filmography film·og·ra·phy n. pl. film·og·ra·phies A comprehensive list of movies in a particular category, as of those by a given director or in a specific genre. . ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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