Title: Planks of reason :
Authors: Grant, Barry Keith,
Date: 1984
Publisher: Scarecrow Press,
Physical description: xiv, 428 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: The mummy's pool / Bruce Kawin -- Faith and idolatry in the horror film / J.P. Telotte -- Conditions of pleasure in horror cinema / Dennis Giles -- Monster movies: a sexual theory / Walter Evans -- The Aesthetics of fright / Morris Dickstein -- The Gothic: a literary genre's transition to film / Charlene Bunnell -- Subgenres in horror pictures: the pentagram, Faust and Philotetes / Joseph Reed -- The witch in film: myth and reality / Sharon Russell -- 'Canyons of nightmare': the Jewish horror film/ Lester D. Friedman -- Daughters of darkness: the Lesbian vampire on film / Bonnie Zimmerman -- An introduction to the American horror film / Robin Wood -- Eros and Syphilization: the contemporary horror film / Dana B. Polan -- King Kong: Ape and essence / Noel Carroll -- Film, society and ideas: Nosferatu and Horror of Dracula / Lane Roth -- The idea of Apocalypse in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre / Christopher Sharrett -- Archetypal landscape and Jaws / Jonathan Lemkin -- The comic and the grotesque in James Whale's Frankenstein films / Janice R. Welsch Syndy M. Conger -- Biological alchemy and the films of David Cronenberg / Mary B. Campbell -- The enemy within: the economy of violence in The Hills Have Eyes / D.N. Rodowick -- Halloween: suspense, aggression and the look / Steve Neale -- Enunciation and the production of horror in White Zombie / Edward Lowry Richard deCordova.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Horror films--History and criticism