Horror Film by Worland, Rick

Horror Film (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405139014)

Vendor: Rick Worland
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Format: Hardcover
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Horror Film by Worland, Rick

Horror Film

$145.95
Horror Film by Worland, Rick

Horror Film

$145.95
Format: Hardcover
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Combining historical narrative with close readings of several significant horror films, this brief volume offers a broad and lively introduction to cinematic horror. In doing so, it outlines and investigates important issues in the production, consumption, and cultural interpretation of the genre.

  • An ideal text for perennially popular courses on the horror film genre.
  • Examines the ways in which horror movies have been produced, received, and interpreted by filmmakers, audiences, and critics, from the 1920s to the present.
  • Provides a short historical introduction of the horror film as an orientation to the field.
  • Analyses a wide variety of major works in the genre, including Frankenstein, Cat People, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween and Bram Stoker's Dracula.


Author: Rick Worland
ISBN-10: 1405139013
ISBN-13: 9781405139014
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2006
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.06w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 278
By Rick Worland
By Rick Worland
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Rick Worland is Associate Professor and Chair of the Division of Cinema-Television at Southern Methodist University. He has published in many scholarly journals, including Cinema Journal, and has contributed essays to a number of film collections.

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