The cinematic boogeyman from the fairytale to the slasher film
"In the 1978 horror film classic Halloween, little Tommy Doyle asks his babysitter Laurie Strode "what is the Boogeyman?" This book answers this probing question by assessing the essential qualities that create the Boogeyman persona in Western popular culture particularly in the fairy...
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Jefferson, North Carolina
McFarland & Comapany Inc., Publishers
[2024]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- The man in the shadows: defining the boogeyman
- The dweller in the darkness: the boogeyman as the archtypal shadow
- The punishing avenger: the boogeyman as the terrible father
- Blades, machetes and claws: the boogeyman as the personification of death