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Title: Abject Terrors

Abject Terrors

Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film

by Tony Magistrale (Author)
©2006 Textbook XVIII, 214 Pages
The Arts

Summary

Abject Terrors is an expansive study of the most significant films from the prolific horror genre – from its origins in the 1920s and 1930s, to its contemporary representations. This survey brings together close analyses of individual motion pictures, demonstrating the interconnections among these filmic texts and their contribution to defining quintessential aspects of the modern and postmodern horror film.

Details

Pages
XVIII, 214
Year
2006
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820470566
Language
English
Keywords
Film Horrorfilm Geschichte Horror
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2005. 213 pp., 6 ill.

Biographical notes

Tony Magistrale (Author)

The Author: Tony Magistrale is Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Pittsburgh and is the author of two other books published by Peter Lang: Writing Across Culture: An Introduction to Study Abroad and the Writing Process (1995) and Poe’s Children: Connections Between Tales of Terror and Detection (1999).

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