Subversive Horror Cinema: Countercultural Messages Of Films From Frankenstein To The Present

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 George A. Romero, Pete Walker, Michael Reeves, Herman Cohen, Wes Craven and Brian Yuzna and the ways in which films like Frankenstein (1931), Cat People (1942), The Woman (2011) and American Mary (2012) can be considered "subversive." 9780786474691 0786474696 255 BOOK Performing Arts NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=1icXAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Jon Towlson
• | Publisher: Mcfarland & Company
• | Publication Date: Apr 03, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0786474696
• | ISBN-13: 9780786474691