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Author | : Robin Wood |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2018-11-12 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0814345247 |
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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.
Author | : Robin Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Horror films |
ISBN | : 9780814345238 |
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Robin Wood's writing on the horror film, published over five decades, collected in one volume.
Author | : Barry Keith Grant |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780810850132 |
Download Planks of Reason Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The original edition of Planks of Reason was the first academic critical anthology on horror. In retrospect, it appeared as a kind of homage to the "golden age" of the American horror film, as this genre played an increasing role in film culture and American life. This revised edition retains the spirit of the original, but also offers new takes on rediscovered classics and recent developments in the genre.
Author | : Robin Wood |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2003-07-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0231507577 |
Download Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan . . . and Beyond Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially updated and revised by the author to include chapters beyond the Reagan era and into the twenty-first century. For the new edition, Robin Wood has written a substantial new preface that explores the interesting double context within which the book can be read-that in which it was written and that in which we find ourselves today. Among the other additions to this new edition are a celebration of modern "screwball" comedies like My Best Friend's Wedding, and an analysis of '90s American and Canadian teen movies in the vein of American Pie, Can't Hardly Wait, and Rollercoaster. Also included are a chapter on Hollywood today that looks at David Fincher and Jim Jarmusch (among others) and an illuminating essay on Day of the Dead.
Author | : Robin Wood |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780231126953 |
Download Hitchcock's Films Revisited Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When Hitchcock's Films was first published, it quickly became known as a new kind of book on film and as a necessary text in the growing body of Hitchcock criticism. This revised edition of Hitchcock's Films Revisited includes a substantial new preface in which Wood reveals his personal history as a critic--including his coming out as a gay man, his views on his previous critical work, and how his writings, his love of film, and his personal life and have remained deeply intertwined through the years. This revised edition also includes a new chapter on Marnie.
Author | : Julian Hanich |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 2011-02-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136991581 |
Download Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Hanich looks at fear at the movies – its aesthetics, its experience and its pleasures--in this thought-provoking study. Looking at over 150 different films including Seven, Rosemary's Baby, and Silence of the Lambs, Hanich attempts to answer the paradox of why we enjoy films that thrill us, that scare us, that threaten us, that shock us –affects that we otherwise desperately wish to avoid.
Author | : Steven Jay Schneider |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2004-06-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1139453688 |
Download Horror Film and Psychoanalysis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : John Kenneth Muir |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 2012-11-22 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786491566 |
Download Horror Films of the 1970s Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The seventies were a decade of groundbreaking horror films: The Exorcist, Carrie, and Halloween were three. This detailed filmography covers these and 225 more. Section One provides an introduction and a brief history of the decade. Beginning with 1970 and proceeding chronologically by year of its release in the United States, Section Two offers an entry for each film. Each entry includes several categories of information: Critical Reception (sampling both '70s and later reviews), Cast and Credits, P.O.V., (quoting a person pertinent to that film's production), Synopsis (summarizing the film's story), Commentary (analyzing the film from Muir's perspective), Legacy (noting the rank of especially worthy '70s films in the horror pantheon of decades following). Section Three contains a conclusion and these five appendices: horror film cliches of the 1970s, frequently appearing performers, memorable movie ads, recommended films that illustrate how 1970s horror films continue to impact the industry, and the 15 best genre films of the decade as chosen by Muir.
Author | : David Roche |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2014-02-06 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1617039624 |
Download Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An expansive treatment of the meanings and qualities of original and remade American horror movies
Author | : Isabel Cristina Pinedo |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2016-02-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1438416164 |
Download Recreational Terror Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. She challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence, and contends instead that the contemporary horror film speaks to the cultural need to express rage and terror in the midst of social upheaval.