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Horror Films for Children

Catherine Lester
Horror Films for Children Book PDF

Author : Catherine Lester
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350135284

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Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed through exposure to horror media. Nowhere is this tension more clear than in horror films for adults, where the demonic child villain is one of the genre's most enduring tropes. However, horror for children is a unique category of contemporary Hollywood cinema in which children are addressed as an audience with specific needs, fears and desires, and where child characters are represented as sympathetic protagonists whose encounters with the horrific lead to cathartic, subversive and productive outcomes. Horror Films for Children examines the history, aesthetics and generic characteristics of children's horror films, and identifies the 'horrific child' as one of the defining features of the genre, where it is as much a staple as it is in adult horror but with vastly different representational, interpretative and affective possibilities. Through analysis of case studies including blockbuster hits (Gremlins), cult favourites (The Monster Squad) and indie darlings (Coraline), Catherine Lester asks, what happens to the horror genre, and the horrific children it represents, when children are the target audience?

Horror Films for Children

Catherine Lester
Horror Films for Children Book PDF

Author : Catherine Lester
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350135277

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Horror Films for Children by Catherine Lester Pdf

Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed through exposure to horror media. Nowhere is this tension more clear than in horror films for adults, where the demonic child villain is one of the genre's most enduring tropes. However, horror for children is a unique category of contemporary Hollywood cinema in which children are addressed as an audience with specific needs, fears and desires, and where child characters are represented as sympathetic protagonists whose encounters with the horrific lead to cathartic, subversive and productive outcomes. Horror Films for Children examines the history, aesthetics and generic characteristics of children's horror films, and identifies the 'horrific child' as one of the defining features of the genre, where it is as much a staple as it is in adult horror but with vastly different representational, interpretative and affective possibilities. Through analysis of case studies including blockbuster hits (Gremlins), cult favourites (The Monster Squad) and indie darlings (Coraline), Catherine Lester asks, what happens to the horror genre, and the horrific children it represents, when children are the target audience?

The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde
The Canterville Ghost Book PDF

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : FV Éditions
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791029902437

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The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde Pdf

An amusing chronicle of the tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chase when his ancestral halls became the home of the American Minister to the Court of St. James.

The Uses of Enchantment

Bruno Bettelheim
The Uses of Enchantment Book PDF

Author : Bruno Bettelheim
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307739636

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The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim Pdf

Winner of the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award "A charming book about enchantment, a profound book about fairy tales."—John Updike, The New York Times Book Review Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development. Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to “The Three Little Pigs,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and “The Sleeping Beauty,” Bettelheim shows how the fantastical, sometimes cruel, but always deeply significant narrative strands of the classic fairy tales can aid in our greatest human task, that of finding meaning for one’s life.

The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema

Jessica Balanzategui
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema Book PDF

Author : Jessica Balanzategui
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789048537792

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The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema by Jessica Balanzategui Pdf

This book illustrates how global horror film images of children re-conceptualised childhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century, unravelling the child's long entrenched binding to ideologies of growth, futurity, and progress. The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema analyses an influential body of horror films featuring subversive depictions of children that emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and considers the cultural conditions surrounding their emergence. The book proposes that complex cultural and industrial shifts at the turn of the millennium resulted in potent cinematic renegotiations of the concept of childhood. In these transnational films-largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and America-the child resists embodying growth and futurity, concepts to which the child's symbolic function is typically bound. By demonstrating both the culturally specific and globally resonant properties of these frightening visions of children who refuse to grow up, the book outlines the conceptual and aesthetic mechanisms by which long entrenched ideologies of futurity, national progress, and teleological history started to waver at the turn of the twenty-first century.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Book PDF

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539541193

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving Pdf

From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by name of Sleepy Hollow... A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. Washington Irving

Children of the Night

Randy Rasmussen
Children of the Night Book PDF

Author : Randy Rasmussen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786427253

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Children of the Night by Randy Rasmussen Pdf

There are six of them: heroines, heroes, wise elders, mad scientists, servants and monsters. One of the most fascinating and also endearing aspects of horror films is how they use these six clearly defined character types to portray good and evil. This was particularly true of the classics of the genre, where actors often appeared in the same type of role in many different films. The development of the archetypal characters reflected the way the genre reacted to social changes of the time. As the Great Depression yielded to the uncertainty of World War II, flawed but noble mad scientists such as Henry Frankenstein gave way to Dr. Nieman (The Ghost of Frankenstein) with his dreams of revenge and world conquest. This work details the development of the six archetypes in horror films and how they were portrayed in the many classics of the 1930s and 1940s.

Fantasy/Animation

Christopher Holliday,Alexander Sergeant
Fantasy Animation Book PDF

Author : Christopher Holliday,Alexander Sergeant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351681414

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Fantasy/Animation by Christopher Holliday,Alexander Sergeant Pdf

This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy cinema, just as fantasy storytelling has often served as inspiration for our most popular animated film and television. Bringing together contributions from world-renowned film and media scholars, Fantasy/Animation considers the various historical, theoretical, and cultural ramifications of the animated fantasy film. This collection provides a range of chapters on subjects including Disney, Pixar, and Studio Ghibli, filmmakers such as Ralph Bakshi and James Cameron, and on film and television franchises such as Dreamworks’ How To Train Your Dragon (2010–) and HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–).

Shock Value

Jason Zinoman
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Author : Jason Zinoman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781101516966

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An enormously entertaining account of the gifted and eccentric directors who gave us the golden age of modern horror in the 1970s, bringing a new brand of politics and gritty realism to the genre. Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but at the same time as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola were making their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror film-aggressive, raw, and utterly original. Based on unprecedented access to the genre's major players, The New York Times's critic Jason Zinoman's Shock Value delivers the first definitive account of horror's golden age. By the late 1960s, horror was stuck in the past, confined mostly to drive-in theaters and exploitation houses, and shunned by critics. Shock Value tells the unlikely story of how the much-disparaged horror film became an ambitious art form while also conquering the multiplex. Directors such as Wes Craven, Roman Polanski, John Carpenter, and Brian De Palma- counterculture types operating largely outside the confines of Hollywood-revolutionized the genre, exploding taboos and bringing a gritty aesthetic, confrontational style, and political edge to horror. Zinoman recounts how these directors produced such classics as Rosemary's Baby, Carrie, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Halloween, creating a template for horror that has been imitated relentlessly but whose originality has rarely been matched. This new kind of film dispensed with the old vampires and werewolves and instead assaulted audiences with portraits of serial killers, the dark side of suburbia, and a brand of nihilistic violence that had never been seen before. Shock Value tells the improbable stories behind the making of these movies, which were often directed by obsessive and insecure young men working on shoestring budgets, were funded by sketchy investors, and starred porn stars. But once The Exorcist became the highest grossing film in America, Hollywood took notice. The classic horror films of the 1970s have now spawned a billion-dollar industry, but they have also penetrated deep into the American consciousness. Quite literally, Zinoman reveals, these movies have taught us what to be afraid of. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of the most important artists in horror, Shock Value is an enthralling and personality-driven account of an overlooked but hugely influential golden age in American film.

Horror Films of the 1980s

John Kenneth Muir
Horror Films of the 1980s Book PDF

Author : John Kenneth Muir
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 845 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786455010

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Horror Films of the 1980s by John Kenneth Muir Pdf

John Kenneth Muir is back! This time, the author of the acclaimed Horror Films of the 1970s turns his attention to 300 films from the 1980s. From horror franchises like Friday the 13th and Hellraiser to obscurities like The Children and The Boogens, Muir is our informative guide. Muir introduces the scope of the decade's horrors, and offers a history that draws parallels between current events and the nightmares unfolding on cinema screens. Each of the 300 films is discussed with detailed credits, a brief synopsis, a critical commentary, and where applicable, notes on the film's legacy beyond the 80s. Also included is the author's ranking of the 15 best horror films of the 80s.

It

Stephen King
It Book PDF

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501175466

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It by Stephen King Pdf

Includes a selection from Sleeping beauties by Stephen and Owen King after page 1157 (to be published in Sept. 2017).

The Horror Film

Stephen Prince
The Horror Film Book PDF

Author : Stephen Prince
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813542577

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In this volume, Stephen Prince has collected essays reviewing the history of the horror film and the psychological reasons for its persistent appeal, as well as discussions of the developmental responses of young adult viewers and children to the genre. The book focuses on recent postmodern examples such as The Blair Witch Project. In a daring move, the volume also examines Holocaust films in relation to horror. Part One features essays on the silent and classical Hollywood eras. Part Two covers the postWorld War II era and discusses the historical, aesthetic, and psychological characteristics of contemporary horror films. In contrast to horror during the classical Hollywood period, contemporary horror features more graphic and prolonged visualizations of disturbing and horrific imagery, as well as other distinguishing characteristics. Princes introduction provides an overview of the genre, contextualizing the readings that follow. Stephen Prince is professor of communications at Virginia Tech. He has written many film books, including Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 19301968, and has edited Screening Violence, also in the Depth of Field Series.

The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema

Andrew Scahill
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Author : Andrew Scahill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137481320

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The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema by Andrew Scahill Pdf

The monstrous child is the allegorical queer child in various formations of horror cinema: the child with a secret, the child 'possessed' by Otherness, the changeling child, the terrible gang. This book explores the possibilities of 'not growing up' as a model for a queer praxis that confronts the notion of heternormative maturity.

On Writing Horror

Mort Castle
On Writing Horror Book PDF

Author : Mort Castle
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781582976938

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On Writing Horror by Mort Castle Pdf

The masters of horror have united to teach you the secrets of success in the scariest genre of all! In On Writing Horror, Second Edition, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, Jack Ketchum, and many others tell you everything you need to know to successfully write and publish horror novels and short stories. Edited by the Horror Writers Association (HWA), a worldwide organization of writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting dark literature, On Writing Horror includes exclusive information and guidance from 58 of the biggest names in horror writing to give you the inspiration you need to start scaring and exciting readers and editors. You'll discover comprehensive instruction such as: • The art of crafting visceral violence, from Jack Ketchum • Why horror classics like Dracula, The Exorcist, and Hell House are as scary as ever, from Robert Weinberg • Tips for avoiding one of the biggest death knells in horror writing—predicable clichés—from Ramsey Campbell • How to use character and setting to stretch the limits of credibility, from Mort Castle With On Writing Horror, you can unlock the mystery surrounding classic horror traditions, revel in the art and craft of writing horror, and find out exactly where the genre is going next. Learn from the best, and you could be the next best-selling author keeping readers up all night long.

It Came From Ohio!: My Life As a Writer

R. L. Stine
It Came From Ohio My Life As a Writer Book PDF

Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545820677

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It Came From Ohio!: My Life As a Writer by R. L. Stine Pdf

Revised and updated, the autobiography of the Master of Fright, RL Stine! The autobiography of RL Stine, creator of the Goosebumps series, now a motion picture in theaters October 16, 2015!Has he had a horrifying life?-Was RL Stine a SCARY kid?-Did he have a WEIRD family?-Did his friends at school think he was STRANGE?- Why does he like to TERRIFY his readers?-Where does he get the frightening ideas for his stories?All of your questions about best-selling your favorite author are answering in this STINE-TINGLING life story! For the first time ever, RL Stine reveals what he was like when he was YOUR age--and what his scary life is like TODAY!Plus: Private snapshots and photos from his family album!