Horror zone
Subtitle: the cultural experience of contemporary horror cinema
By: edited by Ian Conrich
Publisher: I. B. Tauris; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781848852624; 9781848851511
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Industry, technology and the new media. Dark rides, hybrid machines and the horror experience / Angela Ndalianis ; High concept thrills and chills : the horror blockbuster / Stacey Abbott ; Bringing it all back home : horror cinema and video culture / Linda Badley; title: Audiences, fans and consumption. Stalking the web : celebration, chat and horror film marketing on the Internet / Brigid Cherry ; Attending horror film festivals and conventions : liveness, subcultural capital and 'flesh-and-blood genre communities' / Matt Hills ; 'Trashing' the academy : taste, excess and an emerging politics of cinematic style / Jeffrey Sconce; title: Manufacture and design. Culture wars : some new trends in art horror / Joan Hawkins ; Making up monsters : set and costume design in horror films / Tamao Nakahara ; They're here! : special effects in horror cinema of the 1970s and 1980s / Ernest Mathijs ; The Friday the 13th films and the cultural function of a modern Grand Guignol / Ian Conrich; title: Boundaries of horror. 'Parts is parts' : pornography, splatter films and the politics of corporeal disintegration / Jay McRoy ; Nazi horrors : history, myth, sexploitation / Julian Petley ; Better the devil you know : antichrists at the millennium / Mick Broderick ; Feminine boundaries : adolescence, witchcraft and the supernatural in new gothic cinema and television / Estella Tincknell ; Impared visions : the cultural and cinematic politics of blindness in the horror film / Angela Marie Smith.