British Horror Cinema

British Horror Cinema
Author: Steve Chibnall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2001-11-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134582579

British Horror Cinema investigates a wealth of horror filmmaking in Britain, from early chillers like The Ghoul and Dark Eyes of London to acknowledged classics such as Peeping Tom and The Wicker Man. Contributors explore the contexts in which British horror films have been censored and classified, judged by their critics and consumed by their fans. Uncovering neglected modern classics like Deathline, and addressing issues such as the representation of family and women, they consider the Britishness of British horror and examine sub-genres such as the psycho-thriller and witchcraftmovies, the work of the Amicus studio, and key filmmakers including Peter Walker. Chapters include: the 'Psycho Thriller' the British censors and horror cinema femininity and horror film fandom witchcraft and the occult in British horror Horrific films and 1930s British Cinema Peter Walker and Gothic revisionism. Also featuring a comprehensive filmography and interviews with key directors Clive Barker and Doug Bradley, this is one resource film studies students should not be without.

British Horror Cinema

British Horror Cinema
Author: Steve Chibnall
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2002
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780415230032

British Horror Cinema investigates a wealth of horror filmmaking in Britain, from early chillers like The Ghoul and Dark Eyes of London to acknowledged classics such as Peeping Tom and The Wicker Man. Contributors explore the contexts in which British horror films have been censored and classified, judged by their critics and consumed by their fans. Uncovering neglected modern classics like Deathline, and addressing issues such as the representation of family and women, they consider the Britishness of British horror and examine sub-genres such as the psycho-thriller and witchcraftmovies, the work of the Amicus studio, and key filmmakers including Peter Walker. Chapters include: the 'Psycho Thriller' the British censors and horror cinema femininity and horror film fandom witchcraft and the occult in British horror Horrific films and 1930s British Cinema Peter Walker and Gothic revisionism. Also featuring a comprehensive filmography and interviews with key directors Clive Barker and Doug Bradley, this is one resource film studies students should not be without.

Transnationalism and Genre Hybridity in New British Horror Cinema

Transnationalism and Genre Hybridity in New British Horror Cinema
Author: Lindsey Decker
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2021-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1786837005

As an intervention in conversations on transnationalism, film culture and genre theory, this book theorises transnational genre hybridity – combining tropes from foreign and domestic genres – as a way to think about films through a global and local framework. Taking the British horror resurgence of the 2000s as case study, genre studies are here combined with close formal analysis to argue that embracing transnational genre hybridity enabled the boom; starting in 2002, the resurgence saw British horror film production outpace the golden age of British horror. Yet, resurgence films like 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead had to reckon with horror’s vilified status in the UK, a continuation of attitudes perpetuated by middle-brow film critics who coded horror as dangerous and Americanised. Moving beyond British cinema studies’ focus on the national, this book also presents a fresh take on long-standing issues in British cinema, including genre and film culture.

Contemporary British Horror Cinema

Contemporary British Horror Cinema
Author: Johnny Walker
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0748689745

Combining industrial research and primary interview material with detailed textual analysis, Contemporary British Horror Cinema looks beyond the dominant paradigms which have explained away British horror in the past, and sheds light on one of the most dynamic and distinctive "e; yet scarcely talked about "e; areas of contemporary British film production. Considering high-profile theatrical releases, including The Descent, Shaun of the Dead and The Woman in Black, as well as more obscure films such as The Devil's Chair, Resurrecting the Street Walker and Cherry Tree Lane, Contemporary British Horror Cinema provides a thorough examination of British horror film production in the twenty-first century.

Fragments of Fear

Fragments of Fear
Author: Andrew Boot
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Hammer and beyond

Hammer and beyond
Author: Peter Hutchings
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1526151170

Peter Hutchings’s Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into print for the first time in two decades. Featuring Hutchings’s socially charged analyses of genre classics from Dead of Night (1945) and The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) to The Sorcerers (1967) and beyond, it also includes several of Hutchings’s later essays on British horror, as well as a new critical introduction penned by film historian Johnny Walker and an afterword by Russ Hunter. Hammer and beyond deserves a spot on the bookshelf of anyone with a serious interest in the development of Britain’s contribution to the horror genre.

Frightmares

Frightmares
Author: Ian Cooper
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2016-11-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1800346786

An in-depth analysis of the home-grown horror film, each chapter anchored by close studies of key titles, consisting of textual analysis, production history, marketing and reception

Ten Years of Terror

Ten Years of Terror
Author: Harvey Fenton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2001
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Documenting the heyday of independent horror film,production in Britain, 'ten Years of Terror' is an,encyclopaedic record of this era featuring a,stunning selection of film stills and truly great,promotional artwork. Films covered include: 'the,Wicker Man', 'A Clockwork Orange', 'the Devils','Countess Dracula', 'Alien', 'the Omen', 'Killer's,Moon', 'the Rocky Horror Picture Show', 'tales,From the Crypt', 'Frankenstein and the Monster,from Hell' and more! With 48 full-colour pages.,'Gruesomely beautiful and frighteningly good!' -,Hotdog (Book of the Month)

A Heritage of Horror

A Heritage of Horror
Author: David Pirie
Publisher: London : Gordon Fraser
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1973
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: