Download or read book The Brood of Nightmare written by Bethany Helwig and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year has passed since Dasc escaped the penitent cells with Genna at his side. With more werewolf attacks than ever and IMS agents themselves being targeted, no one is safe. Phoenix and Hawk, now part of the legendary Spartans, are determined to put an end to the conflict. But when the IMS authorizes the segregation of werewolves, the battle hits close to home. Separated indefinitely for the first time in their lives, Phoenix and Hawk are forced to walk their own dangerous paths. Phoenix joins a Spartan team where every mission threatens to expose her powerful secret. On the other side of the country, Hawk is confined to a desk job until he's offered a choice--complacency or revolution. The decisions both make will change the shape of the world forever. But the consequences of their actions could cost them everything--even each other.
Download or read book Nightmare Movies written by Kim Newman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now over twenty years old, the original edition of Nightmare Movies has retained its place as a true classic of cult film criticism. In this new edition, Kim Newman brings his seminal work completely up-to-date, both reassessing his earlier evaluations and adding a second part that assess the last two decades of horror films with all the wit, intelligence and insight for which he is known. Since the publication of the first edition, horror has been on a gradual upswing, and taken a new and stronger hold over the film industry. Newman negotiates his way through a vast back-catalogue of horror, charting the on-screen progress of our collective fears and bogeymen from the low budget slasher movies of the 60s, through to the slick releases of the 2000s, in a critical appraisal that doubles up as a genealogical study of contemporary horror and its forebears. Newman invokes the figures that fuel the ongoing demand for horror - the serial killer; the vampire; the werewolf; the zombie - and draws on his remarkable knowledge of the genre to give us a comprehensive overview of the modern myths that have shaped the imagination of multiple generations of cinema-goers. Nightmare Movies is an invaluable companion that not only provides a newly updated history of the darker side of film but a truly entertaining guide with which to discover the less well-trodden paths of horror, and re-discover the classics with a newly instructed eye.
Download or read book X Men Vs the Brood written by John Ostrander and published by Marvel Comics Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Horror Film written by Stephen Prince and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on recent postmodern examples, this is a collection of essays reviewing the history of the horror film and the psychological reasons for its persistent appeal.
Download or read book Horror written by Brigid Cherry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Routledge Film Guidebook, audience researcher and film scholar Brigid Cherry provides a comprehensive overview of the horror film and explores how the genre works. Examining the way horror films create images of gore and the uncanny through film technology and effects, Cherry provides an account of the way cinematic and stylistic devices create responses of terror and disgust in the viewer.
Download or read book Horror Film and Psychoanalysis written by Steven Jay Schneider and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalytic theory has been the subject of attacks from philosophers, cultural critics and scientists who have questioned the cogency of its reasoning as well as the soundness of its premises. Nevertheless, when used to shed light on horror cinema, psychoanalysis in its various forms has proven to be a fruitful and provocative interpretative tool. This volume seeks to find the proper place of psychoanalytic thought in critical discussion of cinema in a series of essays that debate its legitimacy, utility and validity as applied to the horror genre. It distinguishes itself from previous work in this area through the self-consciousness with which psychoanalytic concepts are employed and the theorization that coexists with interpretations of particular horror films and subgenres.
Download or read book A Decade of Nightmares written by Xiang-wu Liu and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the form of satire, this tragic story begins with a false report of two signal flares fired by a class enemy in a small town in South China during Mao Zedongs Cultural Revolution. From 1966 to 1976, a haze of persecution, confusion, and hate befell China. The so-called class enemies were paraded through the streets, and schools were closed. Domestic calamities went head to head with political rebellions while spies ran rampant and property was cruelly confiscated. There was an eventual fight for power as brothers mistreated brothers, wives were stolen, and families murdered. Now, decades later, these silenced voices are remembered in order to avoid the repetition of history. A Decade of Nightmares reminds us of what is true, good, and beautiful but also what is false, evil, and ugly. This book dissects the soul of a nation from a historical cross-section. It calls for the return of dignity and reveals the brutal persecution of the soul. From the vicissitudes of fate, we see clearly the extent and depth of the devastation caused by a decade of disaster.
Download or read book Violent Screen written by Stephen Hunter and published by Bancroft Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gun buff, movie critic and bestselling author of Dirty White Boys, Stephen Hunter takes aim at 13 years of violence on the big screen, hitting the highlights and the lowlifes, the thrills, the chills, and the kills, with deadly precision, explosive prose and devastating good humor.
Download or read book Robin Wood on the Horror Film written by Robin Wood and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin Wood’s writing on the horror film, published over five decades, collected in one volume. Robin Wood—one of the foremost critics of cinema—has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-century. Wood's interest in horror spanned his entire career and was a form of popular cinema to which he devoted unwavering attention. Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews compiles over fifty years of his groundbreaking critiques. In September 1979, Wood and Richard Lippe programmed an extensive series of horror films for the Toronto International Film Festival and edited a companion piece: The American Nightmare: Essays on the Horror Film — the first serious collection of critical writing on the horror genre. Robin Wood on the Horror Film now contains all of Wood's writings from The American Nightmare and nearly everything else he wrote over the years on horror—published in a range of journals and magazines—gathered together for the first time. It begins with the first essay Wood ever published, "Psychoanalysis of Psycho," which appeared in 1960 and already anticipated many of the ideas explored later in his touchstone book, Hitchcock's Films. The volume ends, fittingly, with, "What Lies Beneath?," written almost five decades later, an essay in which Wood reflects on the state of the horror film and criticism since the genre's renaissance in the 1970s. Wood's prose is eloquent, lucid, and convincing as he brings together his parallel interests in genre, authorship, and ideology. Deftly combining Marxist, Freudian, and feminist theory, Wood's prolonged attention to classic and contemporary horror films explains much about the genre's meanings and cultural functions. Robin Wood on the Horror Film will be an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in horror, science fiction, and film genre.
Download or read book The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films written by Carl Royer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go behind the scenes with an insightful look at horror films--and the directors who create them The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films: Dark Parades examines the work of several of the genre's most influential directors and investigates how traditional themes of isolation, alienation, death, and transformation have helped build the foundation of horror cinema. Authors Carl and Diana Royer examine the techniques used by Alfred Hitchcock that place his work squarely in the horror (rather than suspense) genre, discuss avant-garde cinema's contributions to mainstream horror, explore films that use the apartment setting as the "cell of horror," and analyze how angels and aliens function as the supernatural "Other." A unique resource for film students and film buffs alike, the book also examines Sam Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy and the fusion of science, technology, and quasi-religious themes in David Cronenberg's films. Instead of presenting a general overview of the horror genre or an analysis of a specific sub-genre, actor, or director, The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films offers an imaginative look at classic and contemporary horror cinema. The book examines Surrealist films such as Un Chien Andalou and Freaks, the connections among the concepts of voyeurism, paranoia, and alienation in films like Rear Window, Rosemary's Baby, Blue Velvet, and The Blair Witch Project; the use of otherworldly creatures in films such as The Prophecy, Dogma, and The Day The Earth Stood Still; and the films of directors George Romero, John Waters, and Darren Aronofsky, to name just a few. This unique book also includes an extensive A-to-Z filmography and a bibliography of writings on, and about, horror cinema from filmmakers, film critics, and film historians. The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films examines: "Body Doubles and Severed Hands"--the common ancestry of avant-garde "art" films and exploitation horror B-movies "And I Brought You Nightmares"--recurring themes of psychological terror in Alfred Hitchcock's films "Horror, Humor, Poetry"--Sam Raimi's transformation of "drive-in" horror cinema "Atheism and 'The Death of Affect'"--David Cronenberg's obsessions, interests, and cautionary messages in films ranging from Videodrome to Dead Ringers to eXistenZ and much more! The Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films: Dark Parades is a unique resource of critical analysis for academics working in film and popular culture, film historians, and anyone interested in horror cinema.
Download or read book The Horror Film written by Peter Hutchings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Horror Film is an in-depth exploration of one of the most consistently popular, but also most disreputable, of all the mainstream film genres. Since the early 1930s there has never been a time when horror films were not being produced in substantial numbers somewhere in the world and never a time when they were not being criticised, censored or banned. The Horror Film engages with the key issues raised by this most contentious of genres. It considers the reasons for horror's disreputability and seeks to explain why despite this horror has been so successful. Where precisely does the appeal of horror lie? An extended introductory chapter identifies what it is about horror that makes the genre so difficult to define. The chapter then maps out the historical development of the horror genre, paying particular attention to the international breadth and variety of horror production, with reference to films made in the United States, Britain, Italy, Spain and elsewhere. Subsequent chapters explore: The role of monsters, focusing on the vampire and the serial killer. The usefulness (and limitations) of psychological approaches to horror. The horror audience: what kind of people like horror (and what do other people think of them)? Gender, race and class in horror: how do horror films such as Bride of Frankenstein, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Blade relate to the social and political realities within which they are produced? Sound and horror: in what ways has sound contributed to the development of horror? Performance in horror: how have performers conveyed fear and terror throughout horror's history? 1970s horror: was this the golden age of horror production? Slashers and post-slashers: from Halloween to Scream and beyond. The Horror Film throws new light on some well-known horror films but also introduces the reader to examples of noteworthy but more obscure horror work. A final section provides a guide to further reading and an extensive bibliography. Accessibly written, The Horror Film is a lively and informative account of the genre that will appeal to students of cinema, film teachers and researchers, and horror lovers everywhere.
Download or read book Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s written by David Roche and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expansive treatment of the meanings and qualities of original and remade American horror movies
Download or read book Horror Film Aesthetics written by Thomas M. Sipos and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly informed study analyzes how various cinematic tools and techniques have been used to create horror on screen--the aesthetic elements, sometimes not consciously noticed, that help to unnerve, frighten, shock or entertain an audience. The first two chapters define the genre and describe the use of pragmatic aesthetics (when filmmakers put technical and budgetary compromises to artistic effect). Subsequent chapters cover mise-en-scene, framing, photography, lighting, editing and sound, and a final chapter is devoted to the aesthetic appeals of horror cinema. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Download or read book Studying Horror Cinema written by Bryan Turnock and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at teachers and students new to the subject, Studying Horror Cinema is a comprehensive survey of the genre from silent cinema to its twenty-first century resurgence. Structured as a series of thirteen case studies of easily accessible films, it covers the historical, production, and cultural context of each film, together with detailed textual analysis of key sequences. Sitting alongside such acknowledged classics as Psycho and Rosemary’s Baby are analyses of influential non-English language films as Kwaidan, Bay of Blood, and Let the Right One In. The author concludes with a chapter on 2017’s blockbuster It, the most financially successful horror film of all time, making Studying Horror Cinema the most up-to-date overview of the genre available.
Download or read book Urban Nightmares written by Steve Macek and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading the Bible with Horror written by Brandon R. Grafius and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reading the Bible with Horror, Brandon R. Grafius takes the reader on a whirlwind tour through the dark corners of the Hebrew Bible. Along the way, he stops to place the monstrous Leviathan in conversation with contemporary monster theory, uses Derrida to help explore the ghosts that haunt the biblical landscape, and reads the House of David as a haunted house. Conversations arise between unexpected sources, such as the Pentateuch legal texts dealing with female sexuality and Carrie. Throughout the book, Grafius asks how the Hebrew Bible can be both sacred text and tome of fright, and he explores the numerous ways in which the worlds of religion and horror share uncomfortable spaces.
Download or read book World s Greatest Horror Stories Collection of 42 Best Horror Novels of All Time written by H. P. Lovecraft;Rudyard Kipling;William Hope Hodgson and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on with total page 16615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World's Greatest Horror Stories: Collection of 42 Best Horror Novels of All Time This Combo Collection (Set of 42 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: At the Mountains of Madness: H. P. Lovecraft's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by H. P. Lovecraft The Devil's Pool: George Sand's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by George Sand A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas: Charles Dickens's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Charles Dickens The King in Yellow: Robert W. Chambers's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Robert W. Chambers Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus: Mary W. Shelley's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Mary W. Shelley The Boats of the Glen Carrig: William Hope Hodgson's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by William Hope Hodgson The Vampyre a Tale: John William Polidori's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by John William Polidori The Best Psychic Stories: Joseph Lewis French's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Joseph Lewis French The Devil Doctor: Sax Rohmer's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Sax Rohmer The Turn of the Screw: Henry James's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Henry James Green Tea : (Fantasy, Horror, Short Stories, Ghost, Classics, Literature) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Best Ghost Stories: Arthur B. Reeve and Joseph Lewis French's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Arthur B. Reeve and Joseph Lewis French Dracula's Guest: Bram Stoker's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Bram Stoker The Mystery of the Sea: Bram Stoker's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Bram Stoker Three Ghost Stories: Charles Dickens's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Charles Dickens Tales of Terror and Mystery: Arthur Conan Doyle's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Arthur Conan Doyle The Christmas Eve: A Ghost Story: Charles Dickens's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Charles Dickens Indian Ghost Stories: S. Mukerji's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by S. Mukerji The Parasite: Arthur Conan Doyle's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Arthur Conan Doyle Ghosts: A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts: Henrik Ibsen's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Henrik Ibsen The History of the Devil, As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts: Daniel Defoe's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Daniel Defoe The Haunters;The Haunted: Ernest Rhys's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Ernest Rhys The Shadow over Innsmouth: H. P. Lovecraft's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by H. P. Lovecraft The Mysteries of Udolpho: Ann Radcliffe's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Ann Radcliffe The House of the Seven Gables (Illustrated): Nathaniel Hawthorne's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Nathaniel Hawthorne Dracula: Bram Stoker's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Bram Stoker Humorous Ghost Stories: Dorothy Scarborough's Best Classic Humorous Horror Thrillers by Dorothy Scarborough Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories: Ambrose Bierce's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Ambrose Bierce The Monkey's Paw: W. W. Jacobs's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by W. W. Jacobs The Devil in Iron: Robert E. Howard's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Robert E. Howard The Monk: A Romance: M. G. Lewis's Best Classic Horror Thrillers (Best Classic Horror Novels of All Time) by M. G. Lewis The Dunwich Horror: H. P. Lovecraft's Best Classic Horror Thrillers (Best Classic Horror Novels of All Time) by H. P. Lovecraft Great Ghost Stories: Joseph Lewis French's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Joseph Lewis French Can Such Things Be? : Ambrose Bierce's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Ambrose Bierce The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories: Rudyard Kipling's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Rudyard Kipling Demonology and Devil-lore: Moncure Daniel Conway's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Moncure Daniel Conway Carmilla: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Phantom of the Opera: Gaston Leroux's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Gaston Leroux The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Washington Irving's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Washington Irving The Great God Pan: Arthur Machen's Best Classic Horror Thrillers (Best Classic Horror Novels of All Time) by Arthur Machen Supernatural Horror in Literature: H. P. Lovecraft's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by H. P. Lovecraft The Lifted Veil: George Eliot's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by George Eliot
