In clear, accessible prose, and cutting across a broad swath of media to find their common appeals, Hart provides an answer-at once summative and new-to the discipline's most asked question: Why horror?
Adam Charles Hart grew up in Washington State and worked as a film programmer and arts administrator in Seattle before entering academia. His recent research encompasses the horror genre, the American avant-garde, documentary media, and global new waves. His writings have appeared or are forthcoming in The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Imaginations, Studies in the Fantastic, and Discourse, as well as the book collections
A Companion to the Horror Film and Gothic Cinema. He currently lives in Pittsburgh, where he teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.