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 MississippiYear
2021Print ISBN
9781496833211
9781496833228
eBook ISBN
9781496833259
Subtopic
Film & VideoTable of contents
- Cover
- LOST IN THE DARK
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE: Horror Before Film
- CHAPTER TWO: Shadowy Silence: Horror Before Sound
- CHAPTER THREE: Browning and Chaney: The Father of Freaks and the Man of a Thousand Faces
- CHAPTER FOUR: Monster Central: The Great Horror Cycles Begin
- CHAPTER FIVE: Cranking Out the Creepies: Horror in the 1930s and 1940s
- CHAPTER SIX: Val Lewton and the Terrors of the Unseen
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Atomic-Age Monsters: The Sci-Fi-Horror Boom
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Blood and Bosoms: The Success of Hammer Horror
- CHAPTER NINE: The Moment of Shock: Psycho and Peeping Tom
- CHAPTER TEN: The Corman Poes, and the Peerless Vincent Price
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Horror, Italian Style
- CHAPTER TWELVE: All Hell Breaks Loose, 1960–1975
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Bloody England: Hammer’s Competitors
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Sleep of Reason: Horror in Spanish
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Godzilla & Co.: Far East Horror in Transition
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Polanski, Coffin Joe, and Others
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Clark, Craven, Carpenter, and Cronenberg
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Mainstream Horror; or, Bring the Kids!
- CHAPTER NINETEEN: J- and K-Horror, and Other Asian Alphabets
- CHAPTER TWENTY: The Problem of Torture Porn
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Zombies!
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: There’s Usually a Gorilla: Horror-Comedies
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Masters for a New Millennium
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Is Horror Legit?
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- FILMOGRAPHY
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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