Sacred Terror
Sacred Terror

Author: Douglas E. Cowan

Publisher:

Published: 2016-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781481304900

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Sacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of a change in the sacred order; of the supernatural gone out of control; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; of fanaticism; and of the power--and the powerlessness--of religion.

Terrors of the Screen
Terrors of the Screen

Author: Frank Manchel

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1970-01-01

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9780139067921

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Discusses the history, techniques, characters, and plots of horror films from around the world.

Silent Hill
Silent Hill

Author: Bernard Perron

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2012-01-03

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 0472051628

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The second entry in the Landmark Video Games series

White Terror
White Terror

Author: Russell Meeuf

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2022-04-05

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0253060397

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What kinds of terror lurk beneath the surface of White respectability? Many of the top-grossing US horror films between 2008 and 2016 relied heavily on themes of White, patriarchal fear and fragility: outsiders disrupting the sanctity of the almost always White family, evil forces or transgressive ideas transforming loved ones, and children dying when White women eschew traditional maternal roles. Horror film has a long history of radical, political commentary, and Russell Meeuf reveals how racial resentments represented specifically in horror films produced during the Obama era gave rise to the Trump presidency and the Make America Great Again movement. Featuring films such as The Conjuring and Don't Breathe, White Terror explores how motifs of home invasion, exorcism, possession, and hauntings mirror cultural debates around White masculinity, class, religion, socioeconomics, and more. In the vein of Jordan Peele, White Terror exposes how White mainstream fear affects the horror film industry, which in turn cashes in on that fear and draws voters to candidates like Trump.

TV Horror
TV Horror

Author: Lorna Jowett

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-01-18

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0857724487

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Horror is a universally popular, pervasive TV genre, with shows like True Blood, Being Human, The Walking Dead and American Horror Story making a bloody splash across our television screens. This complete, utterly accessible, sometimes scary new book is the definitive work on TV horror. It shows how this most adaptable of genres has continued to be a part of the broadcast landscape, unsettling audiences and pushing the boundaries of acceptability. The authors demonstrate how TV Horror continues to provoke and terrify audiences by bringing the monstrous and the supernatural into the home, whether through adaptations of Stephen King and classic horror novels, or by reworking the gothic and surrealism in Twin Peaks and Carnivale. They uncover horror in mainstream television from procedural dramas to children's television and, through close analysis of landmark TV auteurs including Rod Serling, Nigel Kneale, Dan Curtis and Stephen Moffat, together with case studies of such shows as Dark Shadows, Dexter, Pushing Daisies, Torchwood, and Supernatural, they explore its evolution on television. This book is a must-have for those studying TV Genre as well as for anyone with a taste for the gruesome and the macabre.

Horror Films
Horror Films

Author: James B. Weaver

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1136690484

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Why do so many of us enjoy being told frightening stories? What are some of the consequences that result from such exposure? In light of the considerable popularity of horror films over the last three decades, these questions have become the focus of growing attention for many scholars. However, research on audience preferences for, and reactions to, horror films has been performed eclectically by investigators from varied theoretical and methodological backgrounds. As a result, the information has not been effectively integrated. This volume was written to address this problem and to position the study of audience responses to frightening fiction as a significant research topic.

Global TV Horror
Global TV Horror

Author: Stacey Abbott

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2021-03

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1786836955

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In an era fascinated by horror, this book examines some of the most significant global TV horror, from children’s television and classic series to contemporary shows taking advantage of streaming and on-demand to reach audiences around the world.

Horror Video Games
Horror Video Games

Author: Bernard Perron

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0786454792

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In this in-depth critical and theoretical analysis of the horror genre in video games, 14 essays explore the cultural underpinnings of horror's allure for gamers and the evolution of "survival" themes. The techniques and story effects of specific games such as Resident Evil, Call of Cthulhu, and Silent Hill are examined individually.

Spanish Horror Film
Spanish Horror Film

Author: Antonio Lazaro-Reboll

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2012-11-20

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0748670629

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An original new study of Spanish horror film.