[Read and download] Subversive Horror Cinema: Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present
✿ Jon Towlson ✿
| #2528913 in Books | 2014-03-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.75 x7.00 x.50l,.0 | File Name: 0786474696 | 256 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A joy to read if you’re a fan of horror who is interested not only in the splatter, but in the cause and effect of the genre.|By Madame Noir|While it might be tempting to dismiss horror movies as only frivolous entertainment, Jon Towlson makes an excellent case for regarding the genre as a reflection of society's mores and values at the time. Directors may turn to horror||"Brain candy for the critical horror fan...strikes a perfect balance between rigorous and readable."|- RUE MORGUE||"Never less than enjoyable and provocative...an impressive, well written and incisive look at genre theory. It is certain to make you look at so
Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma--the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Vietnam era, post-9/11--and this critical text argues that a succession of filmmakers working in horror--from James Whale to Jen and Sylvia Soska--have used the genre, and the shock value it affords, to challenge the status quo during these times. Spanning the decades from the 1930s onward it examines the work of producers and directors as varied as Georg...
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