Search results for “[Subject: horror-general]”

• Author(s): Chris Vander Kaay | Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General More horror movies are produced and released each year than any other film g...

• Author(s): Jon Towlson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma--the Great Depression, the Cold War, th...

• Author(s): Rocky Wood | Glenn Chadbourne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General That notorious evening at Villa Diodati when Lord Byron challenged his contemporaries to write a ghost s...

• Author(s): Peter Fraser • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Christianity has had a powerful influence on every sphere of Western art, even art which on the surface might seem antith...

• Author(s): Noel Carroll • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralNoel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature...

• Author(s): Peter Shelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This pioneering work provides in-depth coverage of 76 horror films produced in Australia, where serial killers, c...

• Author(s): David Huckvale • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Gothic cinema, typified by the films of Universal, Hammer, Amicus and Tigon, grew out of an aesthetic that stret...

• Author(s): Lawrence McCallum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Until I vampiri (The Vampires) in 1956, Italian filmmakers generally eschewed horror in favor o...

• Author(s): Ronald L. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General This book chronicles the radio appearances of all prominent classic horror movie stars--Boris Karloff, Bela Lu...

• Author(s): Martin Tropp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism On the Western Front in World War I, a generation faced a horrifying reality that ushered in the m...

• Author(s): Jon Towlson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Critics have traditionally characterized classic horror by its use of shadow and suggestion. Yet th...

• Author(s): Elizabeth McCarthy | Bernice M. Murphy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In recent years horror and gothic themes have penetrated mainstream popular culture in a manner...

• Author(s): Bruce G. Hallenbeck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Fun and fright have long been partners in the cinema, dating back to the silent film era an...

• Author(s): Thomas M. Sipos • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The rise of independent horror filmmaking has spurred a growth of "indie" horror film festivals, promising prom...

• Author(s): Joseph Maddrey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror What's weighing on Americans? Look to horror movies for your answer--they're one of the best measures of...

• Author(s): Thomas Phillips • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Horror & Supernatural Lauded by critics yet largely unappreciated by fans of horror and "weird fiction," T.E.D. Klein is c...

• Author(s): Bartlomiej Paszylk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror The horror genre harbors a number of films too bold or bizarre to succeed with mainstream audiences,...

• Author(s): Tom Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General As Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931) ushered in the golden age of horror films in the United States, studios a...

• Author(s): Michael R. Pitts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Between 1952 and 1977, Allied Artists Pictures Corporation released over 80 feature films with ho...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This is the first ever compilation on Internet television and provides details of 405 programs from 1998 ...

• Author(s): Jason Colavito • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Tracing the development of horror entertainment since the late 18th century, this study argues that scientific discover...

• Author(s): James F. Broderick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This work explores the relationship between twenty-five enduring works of horror literature ...

• Author(s): Tom Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The march of the monster movie makers continues in Tom Weaver's ninth book of in-depth interviews with the men and w...

• Author(s): Richard J. Hand • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism The macabre world of monsters, killers on the loose and revenge from beyond the grave existed ...

• Author(s): Aalya Ahmad | Sean Moreland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This groundbreaking collection of new essays presents critical reflections on teach...

• Author(s): John Kenneth Muir • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Filmmaker Wes Craven has consistently and imaginatively scared movie audiences since the e...

• Author(s): Michele Brittany • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror In sharp contrast to many 1960s science fiction films, with idealized views of space exploration, Ridl...

• Author(s): Jason Colavito • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Horror fiction stormed the bestseller lists with classics like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, setting the stage for ...

• Author(s): Peter Shelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This critically analytical filmography examines 45 movies featuring "grande dames" in horror sett...

• Author(s): Simon A. Wilkinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Profitable, relatively inexpensive to produce, and with a faithful built-in audience, Hollyw...

• Author(s): Thomas Mann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Photoplay editions were usually hardcover reprints of novels that had been made into movies, illustra...

• Author(s): Paul Parla | Charles P. Mitchell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General These twenty heroines portrayed imperiled women in science fict...

• Author(s): Gail Orwig | Raymond Orwig • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This richly illustrated guide to dozens of California filming locations covers five decades of scien...

• Author(s): Mark Clark • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General While you may think the old adage about oil and water being unable to mix applies perfectly to the cinema of terror ...

• Author(s): Thomas M. Sipos • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production This richly informed study analyzes how various cinematic tools and techniques have been use...

• Author(s): Tom Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Tom Weaver's classic fifth volume of interviews is now back in print. Originally published as It Came from Weaver Fi...