Horror Film Reader

by Silver, Alain

• ISBN13: 9780879102975
• ISBN10: 0879102977
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Limelight Editions

Summary

These essays offer a broad overview of the horror film genre, from the silent screen to Scream 3, demonstrating how it remains defiantly, frighteningly alive.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	3	(6)
Part One: Seminal Essays
Ghoulies and Ghosties	9	(12)
Curtis Harrington
Horror Films	21	(18)
William K. Everson
The Subconscious: From Pleasure Castle to Libido Hotel	39	(12)
Raymond Durgnat
The Face of Horror	51	(12)
Derek Hill
A Bloody New Wave in the United States	63	(4)
Jean-Claude Romer
Horror Is My Business	67	(10)
Terence Fisher
The Horror Film: Polanski and Repulsion	77	(10)
Ivan Butler
From Voyeurism to Infinity	87	(8)
Raymond Lefevre
Mario Bava: the Illusion of Reality	95	(16)
Alain Silver
James Ursini
Part Two: New Perspectives
Neglected Nightmares	111	(18)
Robin Wood
Is the Devil American? William Dieterle's The Devil and Daniel Webster	129	(22)
Tony Williams
Violence, Women, and Disability in Tod Browning's Freaks and The Devil Doll	151	(16)
Martin F. Norden
Madeleine Cahill
Monsters as (Uncanny) Metaphors: Freud, Lakoff, and the Representation of Monstrosity in Cinematic Horror	167	(26)
Steven Schneider
The Anxiety of Influence: Georges Franju and the Medical Horror Shows of Jess Franco	193	(30)
Joan Hawkins
Seducing the Subject: Freddy Krueger	223	(14)
Ian Conrich
What Rough Beast? Insect Politics and The Fly	237	(10)
Linda Brookover
Alain Silver
Demon Daddies: Gender, Ecstasy and Terror in the Possession Film	247	(22)
Tanya Krzywinska
Women on the Verge of a Gothic Breakdown: Sex, Drugs and Corpses in The Horrible Dr. Hichcock	269	(12)
Glenn Erickson
Candyman: Urban Space, Fear, and Entitlement	281	(24)
Aviva Briefel
Sianne Ngai
The Haunting and the Power of Suggestion: Why Robert Wise's Film Continues to ``Deliver the Goods'' to Modern Audiences	305	(12)
Pam Keesey
Notes on Contributors	317