Subversive Horror Cinema

Subversive Horror Cinema
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9780786474691
ISBN-13 : 0786474696
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Book Synopsis Subversive Horror Cinema by : Jon Towlson

Download or read book Subversive Horror Cinema written by Jon Towlson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma--the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Vietnam era, post-9/11--and this critical text argues that a succession of filmmakers working in horror--from James Whale to Jen and Sylvia Soska--have used the genre, and the shock value it affords, to challenge the status quo during these times. Spanning the decades from the 1930s onward it examines the work of producers and directors as varied as George A. Romero, Pete Walker, Michael Reeves, Herman Cohen, Wes Craven and Brian Yuzna and the ways in which films like Frankenstein (1931), Cat People (1942), The Woman (2011) and American Mary (2012) can be considered "subversive."


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