Hideous progeny
Subtitle: disability, eugenics, and classic horror cinema
By: Angela M. Smith
Series: Film and culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231157162; 9780231157179; 9780231527859
Subjects: Eugenics in motion pictures; History and criticism; People with disabilities in motion pictures; Horror films; Grotesque in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: disability, eugenics, and classic horror cinema; title: Eugenic reproduction: chimeras in Dracula and Frankenstein; title: Enfreaking the classic horror genre: freaks; title: Revelations and convulsions: spectacles of impairment in classic horror film; title: Mad medicine: disability in the mad-doctor films; title: Shock horror and death rays: disabling spectatorship; title: Conclusion.