A history of horror
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers University Press
2010
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| Beschreibung: | Includes webography, bibliographical references, and filmography (pages 211-222) and index Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of Horror is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre. Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman and their various incarnations in film from the silent era to comedic sequels. A History of Horror explores how the horror f Origins : 1896-1929 -- Classics : 1930-1948 -- Rebirth : 1949-1970 -- New blood : 1970-1990 -- The future : 1990-present |
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| Beschreibung: | xi, 248 pages |
| ISBN: | 9780813550398 0813550394 9780813547954 0813547954 9780813547961 0813547962 |