The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films : Dark Parades

ISBN-13: 9780789022639 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 120 str.

Carl Royer; Diana Royer

Opis

While giving due consideration to body parts and strange sounds from locked rooms, this examination of horror films and their directors focuses on the themes of isolation, alienation, death and transformation. Diana Royer (English, Miami U., Ohio) and Carl Royer explain the techniques that make Hitchcock's films part of the horror genre and connect

Spis treści

• Foreword (Philip L. Simpson)
  
• Preface
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Chapter 1. Body Doubles and Severed Hands: The Relation Between Avant-Garde Cinema and Horror Movies
  
• Chapter 2. “And I Brought You Nightmares”: The Play of Horror in Hitchcock’s Films
  
• Chapter 3. Horror, Humor, Poetry: Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead Trilogy
  
• Chapter 4. The Darkness Is Not the Devil: Atheism and “The Death of Affect”
  in the Films of David Cronenberg
  
• Chapter 5. The Apartment As a Cell of Horror
  
• Chapter 6. Angels and Aliens: The Supernatural Other in Popular Consciousness
  
• Appendix: Filmography
  
• Bibliography
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

O autorze

Carl Royer, Diana Royer