The A to Z of Horror Cinema
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780810870505; 9781282521599
Description: Horror is one of the most enduring and controversial of all cinematicgenres. Horror films range from the subtle and the poetic to thegraphic and the gory but what links them all is their ability tofrighten, disturb, shock, provoke, delight, irritate, amuse, and bemuseaudiences. Horror's capacity to serve as an outlet to capture thechanging patterns of our fears and anxieties has ensured not only itsnotoriety but also its long-term survival and its internationalpopularity. Above all.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Contents; Editor's Foreword; Reader's Note; Chronology; Introduction; The Dictionary; Bibliography; About the Author.