Horror The Film Reader

<p><em>Horror, The Film Reader</em> brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror film from <em>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari</em> to <em>The Blair Witch Project</em>, and outlines the main critical debates. Combining classic and recent articles, each section explores a central issue of horror film, and features an editor's introduction outlining the context of debates.</p> General Introduction. Part One: Theorising Horror - Introduction 1. Robin Wood , The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s 2. Noel Caroll , Why Horror? 3. Andrew Tudor , Why Horror: The Peculiar Pleasures of a Popular Genre Part Two: Gender, Sexuality and the Horror Film - Introduction 4. Linda Williams , When the Woman Looks 5. Barbara Creed , Horror and the Monstrous Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection 6. Carol Clover , Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film 7. Harry M. Benshoff , Introduction: The Monster and the Homosexual Part Three: Producing Horrors - Introduction 8. Paul O'Flinn , Productions and Reproductions: The case of Frankenstein 9. Peter Hutchings , The Problem of Horror 10. Joan Hawkins , Sleaze Mania, Euro-trash and High Art: The Place of European Art Films in American Low Culture Part Four: Consuming Fears - Introduction 11. Rhona Berenstein , Horror for Sale: The Marketing and Reception of Classic Horror Cinema 12. Mark Jancovich , Genre and the Audience: Genre Classification and Cultural Distinctions in the Mediation of The Silence of the Lambs 13. Linda Williams , Learning to Scream 14. Brigid Cherry , Refusing to Look: Female Viewers of the Horror Film. Bibliography