The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films : Dark Parades

ISBN-13: 9780789022646 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 120 str.

Carl Royer; Diana Royer

Opis

Examines the work of several of the genre's most influential directors and investigates how traditional themes of isolation, alienation, death, and transformation have helped build the foundation of horror cinema.

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