Horror

• Main Author: Cherry, Brigid, 1957-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Routledge film guidebooks.
• Subjects: Horror films > History and criticism.; PERFORMING ARTS > Reference. > Film & Video; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary

"In this Routledge Film Guidebook, audience researcher and film scholar Brigid Cherry provides a comprehensive overview of the horror film and explores how the genre works. Examining the way horror films create images of gore and the uncanny through film technology and effects, Cherry provides...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The horror genre: form and function
• 2. Horror aesthetics and affect
• 3. Horror cinema and its pleasures
• 4. Horror and the cultural moment.