TY - BOOK AU - Worland,Rick TI - The horror film: an introduction SN - 1405139013 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - PN1995.9.H6 W64 2007 U1 - 791.436164 PY - 2007/// CY - Malden, MA PB - Blackwell Pub. KW - Horror films KW - History and criticism N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-303) and index; List of illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; 1; Introduction : undying monsters --; 2. A; short history of the horror film : beginnings to 1945 --; 3. A; short history of the horror film : 1945 to the present --; 4; Monsters among us : cases of social reception --; 5; Edges of the horror film : Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, and The unknown (1927) --; 6; Frankenstein (1931) and Hollywood expressionism --; 7; Cat people (1942) : Lewton, Freud, and suggestive horror --; 8; Horror in "the age of anxiety" : Invasion of the body snatchers (1956) --; 9; Slaughtering genre tradition : The Texas chain saw massacre (1974) --; 10; Halloween (1978) : the shape of the slasher film --; 11; Re-animator (1985) and slapstick horror --; 12; Demon lover : Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) --; 13; Afterword : our haunted houses --; Appendix : Horror auteurs --; Notes --; Index UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0802/2006017117-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0802/2006017117-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0802/2006017117-t.html ER -