The spectacle of isolation in horror films
Subtitle: dark parades
By: Carl Royer, Diana Royer.
Contributors: Royer, Diana, 1959-
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780789022639; 9780789022646
Subjects: Horror films -- History and criticism.; Horror films -- Psychological aspects.
Notes: Filmography: p. 109-111.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-116) and index.
Table of contents: title: Body doubles and severed hands : the relation between avant-garde cinema and horror movies; title: "And I brought you nightmares" : the play of horror in Hitchcock's films; title: Horror, humor, poetry : Sam Raimi's Evil dead trilogy; title: The darkness is not the devil : atheism and "the death of affect" in the films of David Cronenberg; title: The apartment as a cell of horror; title: Angels and aliens : the supernatural other in popular consciousness.