Horror Cinema
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Horror is both the most perennially popular and geographically diverse of all film genres; arguably, every country that makes movies makes horror movies of one kind or another. Depicting deep-rooted, even archetypal fears, while at the same time exploiting socially and culturally specific anxieties, cinematic horror is at once timeless and utterly of its time and place. This exciting visual history, which includes unique images from the David Del Valle archive, examines the genre in thematic, historical, and aesthetic terms, breaking it down into the following fundamental categories: Slashers & Serial Killers; Cannibals, Freaks & Hillbillys; Revenge of Nature & Environmental Horror; Sci-fi Horror; The Living Dead; Ghosts & Haunted Houses; Possession, Demons & Evil Tricksters; Voodoo, Cults & Satanists; Vampires & Werewolves; and The Monstrous-Feminine. Among the many films featured are classics such as Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Alien, The Exorcist, Dracula, and The Wicker Man.
Book information
ISBN: | 9783822831526 |
Publisher: | TASCHEN |
Imprint: | Taschen |
Pub date: | 25 Nov 2008 |
DEWEY: | 791.436164 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 191 |
Weight: | 1438g |
Height: | 231mm |
Width: | 289mm |
Spine width: | 25mm |