A history of horror:
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Main Author: Dixon, Wheeler W. 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press 2010
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Item Description:Includes webography, bibliographical references, and filmography (pages 211-222) and index
Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of Horror is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre. Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman and their various incarnations in film from the silent era to comedic sequels. A History of Horror explores how the horror f
Origins : 1896-1929 -- Classics : 1930-1948 -- Rebirth : 1949-1970 -- New blood : 1970-1990 -- The future : 1990-present
Physical Description:xi, 248 pages
ISBN:9780813550398
0813550394
9780813547954
0813547954
9780813547961
0813547962

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