[PDF] 100 European Horror Films eBook

Author : Steven Jay Schneider
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1838714030

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From bloodsucking schoolgirls to flesh-eating zombies, and from psychopathic killers to beasts from hell, '100 European Horror Films' provides a lively and illuminating guide to a hundred key horror movies from the 1920s to the present day. Alongside films from countries particularly associated with horror production - notably Germany, Italy, and Spain and movies by key horror filmmakers such as Mario Bava, Dario Argento, and Lucio Fulci, '100 European Horror Films' also includes films from countries as diverse as Denmark, Belgium, and the Soviet Union, and filmmakers such as Bergman, Polanski and Claire Denis, more commonly associated with art cinema. The book features entries representing key horror subgenres such as the Italian 'giallo' thrillers of the late 60s and 70s, psychological thrillers, and zombie, cannibal, and vampire movies. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, major credits, and a commentary on the film's significance, together with its production and exhibition history. Films covered in the book include early classics such as Paul Wegener's 'The Golem,' Robert Wiene's 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,' and 'Murnau's Nosferatu'; 70s horror favorites such as 'Daughters of Darkness, The Beast,' and 'Suspiria'; and notable recent releases such as 'The Devil's Backbone, Malefique,' and 'The Vanishing.'

Author : Patricia Allmer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 023116209X

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Essays focusing on European horror cinema from 1945 to the present. Features new contributions by distinguished international scholars exploring British, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Northern European and Eastern European horror cinema.

Author : Ian Olney
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253006589

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Beginning in the 1950s, "Euro Horror" movies materialized in astonishing numbers from Italy, Spain, and France and popped up in the US at rural drive-ins and urban grindhouse theaters such as those that once dotted New York's Times Square. Gorier, sexier, and stranger than most American horror films of the time, they were embraced by hardcore fans and denounced by critics as the worst kind of cinematic trash. In this volume, Olney explores some of the most popular genres of Euro Horror cinema—including giallo films, named for the yellow covers of Italian pulp fiction, the S&M horror film, and cannibal and zombie films—and develops a theory that explains their renewed appeal to audiences today.

Author : Steven Jay Schneider
Publisher : Apple Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781845436568

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Whether it be internal demons, real-life vampires, anonymous serial killers, crazed spouses, vengeful ghosts or Satan himself, horror films have gripped audiences and filmmakers alike since the very beginnings of cinema. Prepare to be terrified, fascinated and enthralled as you take this whirlwind tour of the 101 horror films you must see before you die. 101 Horror Films You Must See Before You Die gives you a thorough appreciation of the genre, because it approaches the subject chronologically. You'll move through gothic classics like James Whale's The Old Dark House (1932) and Terence Fisher's Dracula (1958), to zombie movies like Dawn of the Dead (1978) and 28 Days Later (2002). All the sub-genres are covered too, from Eyes Without a Face (mad scientist) and The Howling (werewolf) to Nightmare on Elm Street (slasher) and The Silence of the Lambs (serial killer). And you'll learn that it's not just American teenagers who are horror-film fodder. There are classic horror films from Japan (Onibaba), Russia (Vij), Italy (Suspiria), France (Les Diaboliques), Belgium (Man Bites Dog), Germany (M), and the Netherlands (The Vanishing). Immerse yourself in the most compelling of movie genres. Prepare to be possessed - and whatever you do, don't answer the phone...

Author : Peter Hutchings
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1526151170

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Peter Hutchings’s Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into print for the first time in two decades. Featuring Hutchings’s socially charged analyses of genre classics from Dead of Night (1945) and The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) to The Sorcerers (1967) and beyond, it also includes several of Hutchings’s later essays on British horror, as well as a new critical introduction penned by film historian Johnny Walker and an afterword by Russ Hunter. Hammer and beyond deserves a spot on the bookshelf of anyone with a serious interest in the development of Britain’s contribution to the horror genre.

Author : Lee Broughton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 150138757X

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Identifies key – and in some cases previously overlooked – cult horror films from around the world and reappraises them by approaching and interrogating them in new ways. New productions in the horror genre occupy a prominent space within the cinematic landscape of the 21st century, but the genre's back catalogue of older films refuses to be consigned to the motion picture graveyard just yet. Interest in older horror films remains high, and an ever-increasing number of these films have enjoyed an afterlife as cult movies thanks to regular film festival screenings, television broadcasts and home video releases. Similarly, academic interest in the horror genre has remained high. The frameworks applied by contributors to the collection include genre studies, narrative theory, socio-political readings, aspects of cultural studies, gendered readings, archival research, fan culture work, interviews with filmmakers, aspects of film historiography, spatial theory and cult film theory. Covering a corpus of films that ranges from recognised cult horror classics such as The Wicker Man, The Shining and Candyman to more obscure films like Daughters of Darkness, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, Shivers, Howling III: The Marsupials and Inside, Broughton has curated an international selection of case studies that show the diverse nature of the cult horror subgenre. Be they star-laden, stylish, violent, bizarre or simply little heard-of obscurities, this book offers a multitude of new critical insights into a truly eclectic selection of cult horror films.

Author : Rui M. Trindade Oliveira
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1793654352

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Supranational Horrors: Italian and Spanish Horror Cinema since 1968 moves beyond national cinema discourse in considering the horror production of two Southern European countries, Italy and Spain. Rui M. Trindade Oliveira examines cultural elements that films from these nations share, arguing that a fuller understanding of European horror is possible when we acknowledge the output of Italy and Spain as being interconnected, as possessing a supranational, common identity: “Italian-Spanishness.”

Author : Sophia Siddique
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137584173

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This book broadens the frameworks by which horror is generally addressed. Rather than being constrained by psychoanalytical models of repression and castration, the volume embraces M.M. Bakhtin’s theory of the grotesque body. For Bakhtin, the grotesque body is always a political body, one that exceeds the boundaries and borders that seek to contain it, to make it behave and conform. This vital theoretical intervention allows Transnational Horror Cinema to widen its scope to the social and cultural work of these global bodies of excess and the economy of their grotesque exchanges. With this in mind, the authors consider these bodies’ potentials to explore and perhaps to explode rigid cultural scripts of embodiment, including gender, race, and ability.

Author : Stefano Baschiera
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 074869353X

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This collection brings together for the first time a range of contributions aimed at a new understanding of the Italian horror cinema genre.

Author : Russ Hunter
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
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ISBN : 9780748647187

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European cinema is feted as both original and daring, challenging and sometimes controversial: it has created some of the most memorable horror films ever made and produced some of its most visionary and influential practitioners.Drawing together the story of European horror, this textbook traces its earliest roots in both the European carnival circuit and grand guignol theatre before examining its varied, often fragmented, development. Sometimes an outward-looking phenomenon, sometimes extremely insular, the diverse andinterlinked histories of the European horror film in all their manifestations are explored a series of chronological chapters. The accompanying case studies examine key films in each period: Dog Soldiers, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Dracula, Suspiria and Let the Right One In. This overview of thevaried and connected histories and movements of European horror cinema is an ideal resource for students of horror and European cinema alike.