Monster Cinema

Informationen zum Autor BARRY KEITH GRANT is emeritus professor of film studies and popular culture at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He is an Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and he is the author of numerous books, including 100 Science Fiction Films. Klappentext Introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters. Armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of film history, Grant presents us with an eclectic array of monster movies, from Nosferatu to Get Out. As he discovers, although monster movies might claim to be about "Them!”, they are really about the capacity for horror that lurks within each of us. Zusammenfassung Monster Cinema introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters, from gigantic beasts to microscopic parasites, from grotesque demons to normal-looking serial killers. Film expert Barry Keith Grant considers what each type of movie monster might reveal about how we regard the natural, the supernatural, and the human. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents 1          Meeting Movie Monsters: Monsters R Us 2          Human Monsters 3          Natural Monsters 4          Supernatural Monsters Acknowledgments Further Reading Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: Barry Keith Grant
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780813597652
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-9765-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Quick Takes: Movies and Popula; Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture; Quick Takes: Movies and Popula; Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet