Bright Darkness

Bright Darkness
Author: Jeremy Dyson
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1997
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

With Bright Darkness, Angus Finney provides an exploration of the golden age of the supernatural horror film, placing the genre in the context of the film industry as a whole.

66 Amazing Supernatural Horror Films

66 Amazing Supernatural Horror Films
Author: Steve Hutchison
Publisher: Tales of Terror
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2023-04-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1778872131

This book contains 66 reviews of horror films written and ranked by critic and blogger Steve Hutchison. Each description includes five ratings (stars, story, creativity, acting, quality), a synopsis and a review. All 66 movies present a supernatural threat. How many have you seen?

99 Amazing Supernatural Horror Films

99 Amazing Supernatural Horror Films
Author: Steve Hutchison
Publisher: Tales of Terror
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2023-03-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1778871313

This book contains 99 reviews of horror films written and ranked by critic and blogger Steve Hutchison. Each description includes five ratings (stars, story, creativity, acting, quality), a synopsis and a review. All 99 movies present a supernatural threat. How many have you seen?

The Story Grid

The Story Grid
Author: Shawn Coyne
Publisher: Black Irish Entertainment LLC
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2015-05-02
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1936891360

WHAT IS THE STORY GRID? The Story Grid is a tool developed by editor Shawn Coyne to analyze stories and provide helpful editorial comments. It's like a CT Scan that takes a photo of the global story and tells the editor or writer what is working, what is not, and what must be done to make what works better and fix what's not. The Story Grid breaks down the component parts of stories to identify the problems. And finding the problems in a story is almost as difficult as the writing of the story itself (maybe even more difficult). The Story Grid is a tool with many applications: 1. It will tell a writer if a Story ?works? or ?doesn't work. 2. It pinpoints story problems but does not emotionally abuse the writer, revealing exactly where a Story (not the person creating the Story'the Story) has failed. 3. It will tell the writer the specific work necessary to fix that Story's problems. 4. It is a tool to re-envision and resuscitate a seemingly irredeemable pile of paper stuck in an attic drawer. 5. It is a tool that can inspire an original creation.

Music in the Horror Film

Music in the Horror Film
Author: Neil Lerner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2009-12-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135280436

Music in Horror Film is a collection of essays that examine the effects of music and its ability to provoke or intensify fear in this particular genre of film. Frightening images and ideas can be made even more intense when accompanied with frightening musical sounds, and music in horror film frequently makes its audience feel threatened and uncomfortable through its sudden stinger chords and other shock effects. The essays in this collection address the presence of music in horror films and their potency within them. With contributions from scholars across the disciplines of music and film studies, these essays delve into blockbusters like The Exorcist, The Shining, and The Sixth Sense together with lesser known but still important films like Carnival of Souls and The Last House on the Left. By leading us with the ear to hear these films in new ways, these essays allow us to see horror films with fresh eyes.

Horror

Horror
Author: Brigid Cherry
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2009-02-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134049390

In this Routledge Film Guidebook, audience researcher and film scholar Brigid Cherry provides a comprehensive overview of the horror film and explores how the genre works. Examining the way horror films create images of gore and the uncanny through film technology and effects, Cherry provides an account of the way cinematic and stylistic devices create responses of terror and disgust in the viewer.

Why Horror Seduces

Why Horror Seduces
Author: Mathias F. Clasen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2017
Genre: Art
ISBN: 019066651X

Why do humans feel the need to scream at horror films? In Why Horror Seduces, author Matthias Clasen looks to evolutionary social science to show how the horror genre is a product of human nature.

A Dictionary of Film Studies

A Dictionary of Film Studies
Author: Annette Kuhn
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2012-06-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0191034657

Written by experts in the field, this dictionary covers all aspects of film studies, including terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism, national, international and transnational cinemas, film history, film movements and genres, film industry organizations and practices, and key technical terms and concepts in 500 detailed entries. Most entries also feature recommendations for further reading and a large number also have web links. The web links are listed and regularly updated on a companion website that complements the printed book. The dictionary is international in its approach, covering national cinemas, genres, and film movements from around the world such as the Nouvelle Vague, Latin American cinema, the Latsploitation film, Bollywood, Yiddish cinema, the spaghetti western, and World cinema. The most up-to-date dictionary of its kind available, this is a must-have for all students of film studies and ancillary subjects, as well as an informative read for cinephiles and for anyone with an interest in films and film criticism.

Conjure Wife

Conjure Wife
Author: Fritz Leiber
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2023-03-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1667681761

Tansy Saylor is the wife of an up-and-coming young sociology professor at a small, conservative American college. She is also a witch. Her husband, Norman, discovers this one day while rummaging through her dressing table: he finds vials of graveyard dirt, packets of hair and fingernail clippings from their acquaintances, and other evidence of her witchcraft. He confronts Tansy, and manages to convince her that her faith in magic is a result of superstition and neurosis. Tansy burns her charms; and Norman's luck immediately goes sour. He realizes that he had been protected, up till now, by Tansy's charms, and that as a result of his meddling, they are both now powerless to counteract the spells and charms of the other witches all around them.