Horror Zone : The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema.
Title:
Horror Zone : The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema.
Author:
Conrich, Ian.
ISBN:
9780857713346
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (317 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Ian Conrich -- Part 1: Industry, Technology and the New Media -- 1. Dark Rides, Hybrid Machines and the Horror Experience -- Angela Ndalianis -- 2. High Concept Thrills and Chills: The Horror Blockbuster -- Stacey Abbott -- 3. Bringing It All Back Home: Horror Cinema and Video Culture -- Linda Badley -- Part 2: Audiences, Fans and Consumption -- 4. Stalking the Web: Celebration, Chat and Horror Film Marketing on the Internet -- Brigid Cherry -- 5. Attending Horror Film Festivals and Conventions: Liveness, Subcultural Capital and 'Flesh-and-Blood Genre Communities' -- Matt Hills -- 6. 'Trashing' the Academy: Taste. Excess and an Emerging Politics of Cinematic Style -- Jeffrey Sconce -- Part 3: Manufacture and Design -- 7. Culture Wars: Some New Trends in Art Horror -- Joan Hawkins -- 8. Making up Monsters: Set and Costume Design in Horror Films -- Tamao Nakahara -- 9. They're Here!: Special Effects in Horror Cinema of the 1970s and 1980s -- Ernest Mathus -- 10. The Friday the 13th Films and the Cultural Function of a Modern Grand Guignol -- Ian Conrich -- Part 4: Boundaries of Horror -- 11. 'Parts is Parts': Pornography, Splatter Films and the Politics of Corporeal Disintegration -- Jay McRoy -- 12. Nazi Horrors: History, Myth, Sexploitation -- Julian Petley -- 13. Better the Devil You Know: Film Antichrists at the Millennium -- Mick Broderick -- 14. Feminine Boundaries: Adolescence, Witchcraft, and the Supernatural in New Gothic Cinema and Television -- Estella Tincknell -- 15. Impaired Visions: The Cultural and Cinematic Politics of Blindness in the Horror Film -- Angela Marie Smith -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Robin Wood has noted that horror 'has consistently been one of the most popular and, at the same time, the most disreputable of Hollywood genres'._x000D_ Horror is still immensely popular but its assimilation into our culture continues apace. In Horror Zone, leading international writers on horror take horror into the world outside cinema screens to explore the interconnections between the films and modern media and entertainment industries, economies and production practices, cultural and political forums, spectators and fans. They critically examine the ways in which the horror genre functions in all its multifarious forms, considering, for example, the Friday the 13th films as a contemporary grand guignol, the new series of Mummy and Blade films as blockbusters, and horror film marketing on the Internet. They also examine the relationship between the contemporary horror film and the theme park ride, the horror film as art house cinema, relationships between pornography and the horror film, set and costume design in horror films such as The Silence of the Lambs, and the place of special effects in this most reputable of film genres._x000D_.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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