428 Pages
by
Routledge
432 Pages
by
Routledge
Horror has been one of the most spectacular and controversial genres in both cinema and fiction - its wild excesses relished by some, vilified by many others. Often defiantly marginal, it nevertheless inhabits the very fabric of everyday life, providing us with ways of imagining and classifying our world; what is evil and what is good; what is monstrous and what is 'normal'; what can be seen and... Read more
Acknowledgements Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. The Fantastic 2. Horror and Psychoanalysis 3. Monstrosities 4. Many Frankensteins 5. Reading the King Vampire 6. Queer Horror 7. Ethnic Monsters 8. American Gothic 9. Reading Splatter/Slasher Cinema 10. Lowbrow/Low-Budget Horror 11. New Regional Horror Bibliography Index
Biography
Ken Gelder is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Reading the Vampire (Routledge 1994) and co-editor of The Subcultures Reader (Routledge 1996)
'Gelder is to be congratulated on this selection. If you teach horror then I recommend this, the academic weight here, carefully used, could help students see beyond the gore.' - In The Picture
'Will do much to introduce the uninitiated to the cultural fascination of horror while giving the aficionados plenty to keep them ticking over.' - Intensities
