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Author : Tom Hutchinson
Publisher : Book Sales
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 1984-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780890097557
Critical commentary accompanies hundreds of stills from horror movies featuring Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, werewolves, aliens, prehistoric creatues, the undead, and mad scientists
Author : Denis Gifford
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Horror films
ISBN : 9780600373087
Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Applause Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781495009136
THE ART OF HORROR: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
Author : Carlos Clarens
Publisher : New York : Putnam
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Author : Brad Weismann
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1496833236
Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them—The Shape of Water—won. Since 1990, the production of horror films has risen exponentially worldwide, and in 2013, horror films earned an estimated $400 million in ticket sales. Horror has long been the most popular film genre, and more horror movies have been made than any other kind. We need them. We need to be scared, to test ourselves, laugh inappropriately, scream, and flinch. We need to get through them and come out, blinking, still in one piece. Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film is a straightforward history written for the general reader and student that can serve as a comprehensive reference work. The volume provides a general introduction to the genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, and celebrates its practitioners, trends, and stories. Starting with silent-era horror films and ending with 2020’s The Invisible Man, Lost in the Dark looks at decades of horror movies. Author Brad Weismann covers such topics as the roots of horror in literature and art, monster movies, B-movies, the destruction of the American censorship system, international horror, torture porn, zombies, horror comedies, horror in the new millennium, and critical reception of modern horror. A sweeping survey that doesn’t scrimp on details, Lost in the Dark is sure to satisfy both the curious and the completist.
Author : Bruce G. Hallenbeck
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786453788
Fun and fright have long been partners in the cinema, dating back to the silent film era and progressing to the Scary Movie franchise and other recent releases. This guide takes a comprehensive look at the comedy-horror movie genre, from the earliest stabs at melding horror and hilarity during the nascent days of silent film, to its full-fledged development with The Bat in 1926, to the Abbott and Costello films pitting the comedy duo against Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy and other Universal Studio monsters, continuing to such recent cult hits as Shaun of the Dead and Black Sheep. Selected short films such as Tim Burton's Frankenweenie are also covered. Photos and promotional posters, interviews with actors and a filmography are included.
Author : Denis Meikle
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810863545
This revised and updated edition of A History of Horrors traces the life and 'spirit' of Hammer, from its fledgling days in the late 1940s through its successes of the 1950s and '60s to its decline and eventual liquidation in the late 1970s. With the exclusive participation of all of the personnel who were key to Hammer's success, Denis Meikle paints a vivid and fascinating picture of the rise and fall of a film empire, offering new and revealing insights into 'the truth behind the legend.' Much has been written about Hammer's films, but this is the only book to tell the story of the company itself from the perspective of those who ran it in its heyday and who helped to turn it into a universal byword for terror on the screen.
Author : Robert E. Weinberg
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
The most renowned writers, illustrators, publishers, actors, and filmmakers are drawn together in this exquisite portrayal of horror. Every media from comics, paperbacks, hardcovers, and movies is represented in full color.
Author : Tom Weaver
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786491507
Revised and updated since its first publication in 1990, this acclaimed critical survey covers the classic chillers produced by Universal Studios during the golden age of hollywood horror, 1931 through 1946. Trekking boldly through haunts and horrors from The Frankenstein Monster, The Wolf Man, Count Dracula, and The Invisible Man, to The Mummy, Paula the Ape Woman, The Creeper, and The Inner Sanctum, the authors offer a definitive study of the 86 films produced during this era and present a general overview of the period. Coverage of the films includes complete cast lists, credits, storyline, behind-the-scenes information, production history, critical analysis, and commentary from the cast and crew (much of it drawn from interviews by Tom Weaver, whom USA Today calls "the king of the monster hunters"). Unique to this edition are a new selection of photographs and poster reproductions and an appendix listing additional films of interest.
Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813550394
Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of Horror is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre. Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman and their various incarnations in film from the silent era to comedic sequels. A History of Horror explores how the horror film fits into the Hollywood studio system and how its enormous success in American and European culture expanded globally over time. Dixon examines key periods in the horror film-in which the basic precepts of the genre were established, then banished into conveniently reliable and malleable forms, and then, after collapsing into parody, rose again and again to create new levels of intensity and menace. A History of Horror, supported by rare stills from classic films, brings over fifty timeless horror films into frightfully clear focus, zooms in on today's top horror Web sites, and champions the stars, directors, and subgenres that make the horror film so exciting and popular with contemporary audiences.