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Horror : a thematic history in fiction and film

"The book is organized thematically, with chapters offering histories of the major themes in horror fiction and film: the introduction discusses transgression and censorship, and there are chapters focussing on religion and nationalism; science and technology; vampires; madness and psycho-killers; texts, documents and metafictions; fears of disease and invasion; metamorphosis and body-horror; and Satanism and the occult, with a closing section on horror and the millennium. The book contains detailed discussions of writers from Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley and James Hogg to Stephen King, Clive Barker and Thomas Harris, and film-makers from F.W. Murnau, Tod Browning and James Whale to George A. Romero, David Cronenberg and Wes Craven."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2002
Arnold ; Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, London, New York, 2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
220 Seiten ; 24 cm
9780340762523, 9780340762530, 0340762527, 0340762535
426226317
Introduction: ban this sick filth!
Hating others: religion, nationhood and identity
Mad science: Frankenstein and his monsters
Vampires: children of the night
Monsters from the id: horror, madness and the mind
Forbidden knowledge: textuality, metafiction and books
Them!: narratives of pestilence and invasion
Transformations: body horror
Hail Satan!: diabolism, the occult and demonic possession