The Birth of the American Horror Film by Rhodes, Gary D.

The Birth of the American Horror Film (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474430852)

Vendor: Gary D. Rhodes
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Format: Hardcover
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The Birth of the American Horror Film by Rhodes, Gary D.

The Birth of the American Horror Film

$130.00
The Birth of the American Horror Film by Rhodes, Gary D.

The Birth of the American Horror Film

$130.00
Format: Hardcover
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Although early cinema has long been a key area of research in film studies, the origin and development of the horror film has been a neglected subject for what is arguably one of the world's most popular film genres. Using thousands of primary sources and long-unseen illustrations, The Birth of the American Horror Film examines a history that begins in colonial Salem, taking an interdisciplinary approach to explore the influence of horror-themed literature, theatre and visual culture in America, and how that context established an amorphous structural foundation for films produced between 1895 and 1915. Exhaustively researched, bridging scholarship on Horror Studies and Early Cinema, The Birth of the American Horror Film is the first major study dedicated to this vital but often overlooked subject.

Author: Gary D. Rhodes
ISBN-10: 1474430856
ISBN-13: 9781474430852
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2018
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.80lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 1.10d

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Choice 09/01/2018
By Gary D. Rhodes
By Gary D. Rhodes
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Gary D. Rhodes is Professor of Media, Oklahoma Baptist University. He is the author of Emerald Illusions: The Irish in Early American Cinema (2012), The Perils of Moviegoing in America (2012), and The Birth of the American Horror Film (2018). He is a founding editor of Horror Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Rhodes is also the writer-director of the documentary films Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004).

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