Lost in the Dark
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Lost in the Dark

A World History of Horror Film

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Lost in the Dark

A World History of Horror Film

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Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them— The Shape of Water —won. Since 1990, the production of horror films has risen exponentially worldwide, and in 2013, horror films earned an estimated $400 million in ticket sales. Horror has long been the most popular film genre, and more horror movies have been made than any other kind. We need them. We need to be scared, to test ourselves, laugh inappropriately, scream, and flinch. We need to get through them and come out, blinking, still in one piece. Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film is a straightforward history written for the general reader and student that can serve as a comprehensive reference work. The volume provides a general introduction to the genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, and celebrates its practitioners, trends, and stories. Starting with silent-era horror films and ending with 2020's The Invisible Man, Lost in the Dark looks at decades of horror movies. Author Brad Weismann covers such topics as the roots of horror in literature and art, monster movies, B-movies, the destruction of the American censorship system, international horror, torture porn, zombies, horror comedies, horror in the new millennium, and critical reception of modern horror. A sweeping survey that doesn't scrimp on details, Lost in the Dark is sure to satisfy both the curious and the completist.

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Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Year
2021
ISBN
9781496833259
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. LOST IN THE DARK
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. CHAPTER ONE: Horror Before Film
  9. CHAPTER TWO: Shadowy Silence: Horror Before Sound
  10. CHAPTER THREE: Browning and Chaney: The Father of Freaks and the Man of a Thousand Faces
  11. CHAPTER FOUR: Monster Central: The Great Horror Cycles Begin
  12. CHAPTER FIVE: Cranking Out the Creepies: Horror in the 1930s and 1940s
  13. CHAPTER SIX: Val Lewton and the Terrors of the Unseen
  14. CHAPTER SEVEN: Atomic-Age Monsters: The Sci-Fi-Horror Boom
  15. CHAPTER EIGHT: Blood and Bosoms: The Success of Hammer Horror
  16. CHAPTER NINE: The Moment of Shock: Psycho and Peeping Tom
  17. CHAPTER TEN: The Corman Poes, and the Peerless Vincent Price
  18. CHAPTER ELEVEN: Horror, Italian Style
  19. CHAPTER TWELVE: All Hell Breaks Loose, 1960–1975
  20. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Bloody England: Hammer’s Competitors
  21. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Sleep of Reason: Horror in Spanish
  22. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Godzilla & Co.: Far East Horror in Transition
  23. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Polanski, Coffin Joe, and Others
  24. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Clark, Craven, Carpenter, and Cronenberg
  25. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Mainstream Horror; or, Bring the Kids!
  26. CHAPTER NINETEEN: J- and K-Horror, and Other Asian Alphabets
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY: The Problem of Torture Porn
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Zombies!
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: There’s Usually a Gorilla: Horror-Comedies
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Masters for a New Millennium
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Is Horror Legit?
  32. NOTES
  33. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  34. FILMOGRAPHY
  35. ABOUT THE AUTHOR