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Download e-book for kindle: Horror Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Slashers, by John Kenneth Muir

By John Kenneth Muir

ISBN-10: 1557839506

ISBN-13: 9781557839503

(FAQ). Horror motion pictures FAQ explores a century of ghoulish and grand horror cinema, observing on the varied characters, occasions, settings, and issues featured within the horror movie, from ultimate women, titanic bogeymen, large monsters and vampires to the hot torture porn and located pictures codecs. The publication recalls the J-Horror remake pattern of the 2000s, and examines the oft-repeated slasher structure popularized by means of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) and Friday the thirteenth (1980). After an creation positioning the horror movie as a big and ethical voice within the nationwide discussion, the publication explores the heritage of horror decade through decade, remembering the women's liberation horrors of the Seventies, the rubber truth movies of the past due Nineteen Eighties, the serial killers of the Nineteen Nineties, and the xenophobic terrors of the 9-11 age. Horror motion pictures FAQ additionally asks what it skill while animals assault in such motion pictures as The Birds (1963) or Jaws (1975), and considers the ethical underpinnings of rape-and-revenge video clips, similar to I Spit in your Grave (1978) and Irreversible (2002). The ebook positive aspects a number of photos from the author's large own archive, and in addition catalogs the genre's so much famous directors.

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