European Nightmares - Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945

Informationen zum Autor Patricia Allmer is senior research fellow in art history and theory at MIRIAD! Manchester Metropolitan University. David Huxley is senior lecture at Manchester Metropolitan University. Emily Brick is senior lecture at Manchester Metropolitan University. Klappentext This collection of essays is focusing on European horror cinema from 1945 to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContributorsIntroduction! by Patricia Allmer! Emily Brick! and David HuxleyReception and Perception of European Horror CinemasSection Introduction! by Patricia Allmer! Emily Brick! and David HuxleyResident Evil? The Limits of European Horror: Resident Evil Versus Suspiria! by Peter HutchingsBeyond Suspiria: The Place of European Horror Cinema in the Fan Canon! by Brigid CherryRefusing to Look at Rape: The Reception of Belgian Horror Cinema! by Ernest Mathijs and Russ HunterDepressing! Degrading! The Reception of the European Horror Film in Britain! 1957-68! by David HuxleyBritish Horror CinemaSection Introduction! by Patricia Allmer! Emily Brick! and David HuxleyThe Boundaries of Horror in Wolf Rilla's Village of the Damned! by John SearsNew Labour! New Horrors: Genetic Mutation! Generic Hybridity and Gender Crisis in British Horror of the New Millennium! by Linnie BlakeFrench Horror CinemaSection Introduction! by Patricia Allmer! Emily Brick! and David Huxley Baise-moi and the French Rape-Revenge Film! by Emily BrickSubjectivity Unleashed: Haute Tension! by Matthias HurstSpanish Horror CinemaSection Introduction! by Patricia Allmer! Emily Brick! and David HuxleyPaul Naschy! Exorcismo and the Reactionary Horrors of Spanish Popular Cinema in the Early 1970s! by Andy WillisHistory! Terrain and Tread: The Walk of Demons! Zombie Flesh Eaters and the Blind Dead! by Phil SmithAlejandro Amenabar and Contemporary Spanish Horror! by Barry JordanItalian Horror CinemaSection Introduction! by Patricia Allmer! Emily Brick! and David HuxleyLive Ate: Global Catastrophe and the Politics and Poetics of the Italian Zombie Film! by Mark GoodallA Touch of Terror: Dario Argento and Deleuze's Cinematic Sensorium! by Anna PowellGerman and Northern European Horror CinemaSection Introduction! by Patricia Allmer! Emily Brick! and David Huxley'A Former Director of German Horror Films': Horror! European Cinema and the Critical Reception of Robert Siodmak's Hollywood Career! by Mark JancovichWorld of Blood and Fire: Lang! Mabuse! and Bergman's The Serpent's Egg! by Samuel J. Umland'Le Cineaste d'Horreur Ordinaire': Michael Haneke and the Horrors of Everyday Existence! by Catherine WheatleyEastern European Horror CinemaSection Introduction! by Patricia Allmer! Emily Brick! and David HuxleyA Gaze from Hell: Eastern European Horror Cinema Revisited! by Christina Stojanova Taxidermia--a Hungarian Taste for Horror! by Patricia AllmerHorror Films in Turkish Cinema: To Use or Not to Use Local Cultural Motifs! That is Not the Question! by Kaya OzkaracalarFilmographyIndex ...

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• Authors: Allmer, Patricia Allmer, Patricia David Allmer, Patricia Huxley Allmer
• Assisted by: Patricia Allmer (Editor), Allmer Patricia (Editor), Emily Brick (Editor), Brick Emily (Editor), Huxley David (Editor), David Huxley (Editor), Huxley David (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9780231162098
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16209-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Film, Europe, 21st Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Film: styles & genres, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Film: styles and genres