A History of Horror, 2nd Edition
Wheeler Winston Dixon, "A History of Horror, 2nd Edition"
English | ISBN: 197883358X | 2023 | 298 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 197883358X | 2023 | 298 pages | PDF | 4 MB
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 fully revised and updated A History of Horror is still 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. In covering the last decade, this new edition includes coverage of the resurgence of the genre, covering the swath of new groundbreaking horror films directed by women, Black and queer horror films, and a new international wave in body horror films.
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