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Author | : James Aston |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2018-09-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476668884 |
The first of its kind, this study examines the exemplars of hardcore horror--Fred Vogel's August Underground trilogy, Shane Ryan's Amateur Porn Star Killer series and Lucifer Valentine's "vomit gore" films. The author begins with a definition and critical overview of this marginalized subgenre before exploring its key aesthetic convention, the pursuit of realist horror. Production practices, exhibition and marketing strategies are discussed in an in-depth interview with filmmaker Shane Ryan. Audience reception is covered with a focus on fan interaction via the Internet.
Author | : Joe Hill |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2009-02-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0061843229 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . . Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .
Author | : Charles Derry |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2009-12-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786456957 |
Greatly expanded and updated from the 1977 original, this new edition explores the evolution of the modern horror film, particularly as it reflects anxieties associated with the atomic bomb, the Cold War, 1960s violence, sexual liberation, the Reagan revolution, 9/11 and the Iraq War. It divides modern horror into three varieties (psychological, demonic and apocalyptic) and demonstrates how horror cinema represents the popular expression of everyday fears while revealing the forces that influence American ideological and political values. Directors given a close reading include Alfred Hitchcock, Brian De Palma, David Cronenberg, Guillermo Del Toro, Michael Haneke, Robert Aldrich, Mel Gibson and George A. Romero. Additional material discusses postmodern remakes, horror franchises and Asian millennial horror. This book also contains more than 950 frame grabs and a very extensive filmography.
Author | : Paul Counelis |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2014-06-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1312262575 |
In 11:59 AND COUNTING, Paul Counelis (Rue Morgue) talks to a host of horror hosts, delving into what makes them tick, insights into what its like to do what they do and how they stay relevant in today's media overloaded world. A fun and engrossing look at a rich, intriguing and spooky tradition and a must read for fans of horror movies and the men and women who introduce them.
Author | : Dana Stevens |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2023-02-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1501134205 |
They were calling it the Twentieth Century -- "She is a little animal, surely" -- "He's my son, and I'll break his neck any way I want to" -- "The locomotive of juveniles" -- A little hell-raising Huck Finn -- The boy who couldn't be damaged -- "Make me laugh, Keaton" -- Speed mania in the kingdom of shadows -- Pancakes at Childs -- Comique -- Roscoe -- Brooms -- Mabel at the wheel -- Famous players in famous plays -- Home, made -- Rice, shoes, and real estate -- The shadow stage -- Battle-scarred risibilities -- One for you, one for me -- The "darkie shuffle" -- The collapsing façade -- Grief slipped in -- The road through the mountain -- Not a drinker, a drunk -- Old times -- The coming thing in entertainment -- Coda: Eleanor.
Author | : Mort Castle |
Publisher | : Wicker Park Press Book |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2012-10-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781936679089 |
ALL AMERICAN HORROR OF THE 21ST CENTURY is a compilation of the best short horror fiction published by magazines, anthologies, and websites spanning the years 2000 to 2010. These stories deal with uniquely American themes and subjects and are written in an equally unique American style. Contributors include National Book award-nominee Dan Chaon, rising horror star Jeff Jacobson, Bram Stoker award-winner John Everson, World Fantasy award winner Andy Duncan, and New York Times bestselling author Tom Monteleone.
Author | : Kimberly Jackson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137532750 |
Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal decline and post-feminist ideology are portrayed in popular American horror films of the twenty-first century. Through analyses of such films as Orphan, Insidious, and Carrie, Kimberly Jackson reveals how the destruction of male figures and depictions of female monstrosity in twenty-first-century horror cinema suggest that contemporary American culture finds itself at a cultural standstill between a post-patriarchal society and post-feminist ideology.
Author | : Jess Nevins |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2020-01-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1440862060 |
Providing an indispensable resource for academics as well as readers interested in the evolution of horror fiction in the 20th century, this book provides a readable yet critical guide to global horror fiction and authors. Horror Fiction in the 20th Century encompasses the world of 20th-century horror literature and explores it in a critical but balanced fashion. Readers will be exposed to the world of horror literature, a truly global phenomenon during the 20th century. Beginning with the modern genre's roots in the 19th century, the book proceeds to cover 20th-century horror literature in all of its manifestations, whether in comics, pulps, paperbacks, hardcover novels, or mainstream magazines, and from every country that produced it. The major horror authors of the century receive their due, but the works of many authors who are less well-known or who have been forgotten are also described and analyzed. In addition to providing critical assessments and judgments of individual authors and works, the book describes the evolution of the genre and the major movements within it. Horror Fiction in the 20th Century stands out from its competitors and will be of interest to its readers because of its informed critical analysis, its unprecedented coverage of female authors and writers of color, and its concise historical overview.
Author | : David Church |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2021-02-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1474475906 |
Horror’s longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Variously dubbed 'elevated horror' and 'post-horror,' films such as The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, It Comes at Night, Get Out, The Invitation, Hereditary, Midsommar, A Ghost Story, and mother! represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has often earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. Post-Horror is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema.
Author | : Paul Guernsey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2021-08-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781105772214 |
This vibrant collection of award-winning supernatural stories from around the world offers something for every taste in the uncanny. Yes, there are ghosts. But you'll also find pieces involving revenants or reanimated corpses of different sorts, including-but not limited to-zombies, as well as stories that make literary use of fairies, vampires, demons, The Devil Himself, snakes (talking, and otherwise), time slips (aka unintentional time travel), mystery animals, ancient curses, contemporary curses, a plague even scarier than the coronavirus, Santería, and a number of haunted objects, including fine dinnerware, some smoky panes of old window glass, and a stuffed rabbit with a bad attitude. We've got several stories that fit the category of magic realism, a couple that are just plain hard to categorize, and one that has to do with dragons. Each of these 30 stories, in addition to providing the reader with a thrill, a chill, a laugh, or a new perspective on life and death, is also a small literary gem that you'll want to revisit again and again.