A Companion to the horror film - Benshoff, Harry M. 1963- (Chichester, West Sussex John Wiley and Sons, Inc, 2017)
Approaches and contexts. Cognitive and philosophical approaches to horror / Aaron Smuts -- Horror and psychoanalysis: an introductory primer / Chris Dumas -- Gender and sexuality haunts the horror film / Daniel Humphrey -- The horror film as social allegory (and how it comes undone) / Christopher Sharrett -- Avenging the body: disability in the horror film / Travis Sutton -- Horror reception/audiences / Matt Hills -- A's, B's, quickies, orphans, and nasties: horror films in the context of distribution and exhibition / Kevin Heffernan -- Horror and the censors / Julian Petley -- The form of horror. Carl Dreyer's corpse: horror film atmosphere and narrative Robert Spadoni -- Horror sound design / William Whittington -- Mellifluous terror: the discourse of music and horror films / Joe Tompkins -- A history of the (western) horror film. Horror before "the horror film" / Harry Benshoff -- Classical Hollywood horror /John Edgar Browning -- Horror in the 1940s / Mark Jancovich -- Science fiction and horror in the 1950s / Steffen Hantke -- The gothic revival (1957-1974) / Rick Worland -- International horror in the 1970s / Peter Hutchings -- Slasher films and gore in the 1980s / James Kendrick -- Millennial fears: abject horror in a transnational context / Adam Charles Hart -- Torture porn: 21st century horror / Isabel C. Pinedo -- Selected international horror cinemas. Spanish horror cinema / Ian Olney -- The return of the rural repressed: Italian horror and the mezzogiorno giallo / Xavier Mendik -- Recent trends in Japanese horror cinema / Jay McRoy -- South Korean horror cinema / Daniel Martin -- Sisterhood of terror: the monstrous feminine of Southeast Asian horror cinema / Andrew Hock Soon Ng -- Selected archetypes, hybrids, and crossovers. Vampires and transnational horror / Dale Hudson -- Trash horror and the cult of the bad film / I. Q. Hunter -- "Moody three": revisiting Ken Russell's The devils / Joan Hawkins -- Horror's otherness and ethnographic surrealism: the case of The shout / Adam Llowenstein -- The documentary impulse and reel/real horror / Caroline Joan S. Picart.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Horror films -- History and criticism