Educational Institutions in Horror Film

A History of Mad Professors, Student Bodies, and Final Exams

A. Grunzke

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781349500437
  9781137469199
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137469205
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Education General
• Index: History

An exploration of how educational institutions have been portrayed in horror film, this book examines the way that scary movies have dealt with the issue of school violence, focusing on movies set in high schools, colleges, and summer camps.

Index

976-EVIL, 104, 108, 122–123, 186

976-EVIL 2, 122–123

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 85–86

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, 35–37

adultery, 103, 149

After Midnight, 120–121

Alice, Sweet Alice, 91

aliens, 38, 57–58, 93–94

Altered States, 67

Amicus Films, 73, 167

animation, see cartoons

Antichrist, 121

anti-intellectualism, 19, 62

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, 19, 62

anti-Modernism, 6, 137

Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 140

Audrey Rose, 91

Bad Seed, The, 90–91

Barrymore, John, 68–69

Bates, Ralph, 74–75

Black Christmas, 118, 124–126, 168

Blacula, 55–56, 84, 181–182

blaxploitation, 55, 83–86

Blob, The, 4–5

Bradley, Doug, 163

Bride of Frankenstein, 32–33, 170

Brides of Dracula, The, 49–50

Bronson, Charles, 13...

Table of contents

• Cover
• title
• cpoyright
• contents
• ack
• Introduction
• Is There a Doctor in the House? The Evolution of Van Helsing and Frankenstein as Intellectual Archetypes, 1931–1975
• The Transformation of Dr. Jekyll: The Evolution of Film and Television Portrayals of Stevenson’s Intellectual in the Age of Academe
• Student Bodies: The School as Locus of Trauma in American Horror Films of the 1970s and 1980s
• Final Exams and Greek Tragedies: Colleges and Universities in American Horror Films of the 1970s and 1980s
• Survival Training: Summer Camp as Educational Institution in Slasher Films of the 1980s
• Some Concluding Thoughts
• notes
• Index