Horror Film A Critical Introduction [Hardcover]

Throughout the history of cinema, horror has proven to be a genre of consistent popularity, which adapts to different cultural contexts while retaining a recognizable core.Horror Film: A Critical Introduction, the newest in Bloomsbury'sFilm Genreseries, balances the discussions of horror's history, theory, and aesthetics as no introductory book ever has. Featuring studies of films both obscure and famous,Horror Filmis international in its scope and chronicles horror from its silent roots until today. As a straightforward and convenient critical introduction to the history and key academic approaches, this bookis accessible to the beginner but still of interest to the expert.Murray Leederteaches Film Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is the authorThe Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema(2017) andHalloween(2013), and editor ofCinematic Ghosts(2015) andReFocus: The Films of William Castle(2018).An introduction to the horror film genre.

Acknowledgements
List of Images
Introduction
1: Horror's Process of Genrification, 1895-1938
2: 1939-1973: Horror and the Crisis of Rationality
3: 1974-Present: High and Low
4: What Is Horror?
5: Mind and Body: The 'Why?' of Horror
6: Horror's Audiences, Critics and Censors
7: Shocking and Spooky Sounds
8: Colours of Fear
9: Digital Horrors
Works Cited
Index