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1 online resource (224 pages) |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
This lively and illuminating book explores over 100 contemporary horror films, providing insightful and provocative readings of what they mean while including numerous quotes from their creators. Some of these films, including The Babadook, The Green Inferno, It Follows, The Neon Demon, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and The Witch, are so recent that this will be one of the first times they are discussed in book form. The book is divided into three main sections: "nightmares," "nations," and "innovations." "Nightmares" looks at new manifestations of traditional fears, including creepy dolls, haunted houses and demonic possession as well as vampires, werewolves, witches and zombies; and also considers more contemporary anxieties such as dread of home invasion and homophobia. "Nations" explores fright films from around the world, including Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Spain and Sweden as well as the UK and the U.S. "Innovations" focuses on the latest trends in terror from 3D to found-footage films, from Twilight teen romance to torture porn, and from body horror and eco-horror to techno-horror. Parodies, remakes and American adaptations of Asian horror are also discussed. |
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Print version record. |
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Guides & Reviews.
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Horror films -- 21st century -- Catalogs.
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Electronic books.
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Freading.
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| Related To |
Print version: Keesey, Douglas. Twenty first century horror films. Harpenden : Kamera Books, [2017]. 9781843449065 (Uk)018177737 |
| ISBN |
9781843449065 (e-pub) |
| Standard No. |
9781843449065 |
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