Household Horror

Author : Marc Olivier
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253046581

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Household Horror by Marc Olivier Pdf

A scholar examines 14 everyday objects featured in horror films and how they manifest their power and speak to society’s fears. Take a tour of the house where a microwave killed a gremlin, a typewriter made Jack a dull boy, a sewing machine fashioned Carrie’s prom dress, and houseplants might kill you while you sleep. In Household Horror, Marc Olivier highlights the wonder, fear, and terrifying dimension of objects in horror cinema. Inspired by object-oriented ontology and the nonhuman turn in philosophy, Olivier places objects in film on par with humans, arguing, for example, that a sleeper sofa is as much the star of Sisters as Margot Kidder, that The Exorcist is about a possessed bed, and that Rosemary’s Baby is a conflict between herbal shakes and prenatal vitamins. Household Horror reinvigorates horror film criticism by investigating the unfathomable being of objects as seemingly benign as remotes, radiators, refrigerators, and dining tables. Olivier questions what Hitchcock’s Psycho tells us about shower curtains. What can we learn from Freddie Krueger’s greatest accomplice, the mattress? Room by room, Olivier considers the dark side of fourteen household objects to demonstrate how the objects in these films manifest their own power and connect with specific cultural fears and concerns. “Provides a lively and highly original contribution to horror studies. As a work on cinema, it introduces the reader to films that may be less well-known to casual fans and scholars; more conspicuously, it returns to horror staples, gleefully reanimating works that one might otherwise assume had been critically “done to death” (Psycho, The Exorcist, The Shining).” —Allan Cameron, University of Auckland

Author : Peg Kehret
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101661703

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Horror at the Haunted House by Peg Kehret Pdf

It was a job any kid would kill for: to play a role in the Historical Society's Haunted House Halloween fundraising event. Ellen Streater was thrilled to play Joan of Arc, burning at the stake. It was for a good cause—to benefit the eerie old Clayton House, soon to reopen as a museum. They said the house was haunted. Ellen didn't believe it—until she felt a strange, icy feeling when she touched the beautiful Fairylustre bowl. Then she saw the ghost in the mirror—a beautiful phantom who beckoned her into a nightmare beyond her wildest dreams. "Entertaining and appealing, with lively and believable young people and a personable ghost." —School Library Journal

Author : Hilary H. Milton
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0671456318

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Craven House Horrors by Hilary H. Milton Pdf

Trapped by a storm in a mysterious and frightening house, the reader is given several alternative choices to manipulate the plot and plan an escape.

Author : Jay Anson
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781982138264

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The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson Pdf

“A fascinating and frightening book” (Los Angeles Times)—the bestselling true story about a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe. In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in the house, but the property—complete with boathouse and swimming pool—and the price had been too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family fled in terror. This is the spellbinding, shocking true story that gripped the nation about an American dream that turned into a nightmare beyond imagining—“this book will scare the hell out of you” (Kansas City Star).

Author : Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476637693

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Horror Comes Home by Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the monsters out--until it isn't. This collection of new essays focuses on genre horror movies in which the home is central to the narrative, whether as refuge, prison, menace or supernatural battleground. The contributors explore the shifting role of the home as both a source and a mitigator of the terrors of this world, and the next. Well known films are covered--including Psycho, Get Out, Insidious: The Last Key and Winchester House--along with films produced outside the U.S. by directors such as Alejandro Amenabar (The Others), Hideo Nakata (Ringu) and Guillermo Del Toro (The Orphanage), and often overlooked classics like Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger.

Author : Kier-La Janisse
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781903254820

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House of Psychotic Women by Kier-La Janisse Pdf

Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. Unlike her male counterpart - ‘the eccentric’ - the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play. HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN is an examination of these characters through a daringly personal autobiographical lens. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and a celebration of female madness, both onscreen and off. This critically-acclaimed publication is packed with rare images that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure in equal measure. Films covered include The Entity, Paranormal Activity, Singapore Sling, 3 Women, Toys Are Not for Children, Repulsion, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, The Haunting of Julia, Secret Ceremony, Cutting Moments, Out of the Blue, Mademoiselle, The Piano Teacher, Possession, Antichrist and hundreds more. Prior to this ebook edition, Kier-La's highly acclaimed book has already been issued twice in hardcover and twice in paperback, garnering extensive press coverage. Endorsement including the following: “God, this woman can write, with a voice and intellect that’s so new. The truth in the most deadly unique way I’ve ever read.” – Ralph Bakshi, director of ‘Fritz the Cat’, ‘Heavy Traffic’, ‘Lord of the Rings’, etc. “Fascinating, engaging and lucidly written: an extraordinary blend of deeply researched academic analysis and revealing memoir.” – Iain Banks, author of ‘The Wasp Factory’

Author : Charles Fuge,Ian Craig
Publisher : Konemann
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Haunted houses
ISBN : 3829009062

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Spooky House of Horror by Charles Fuge,Ian Craig Pdf

"Norman's naughty puppy has strayed into the Spooky House of Horror. Can you help him to find Dingo?" -- cover.

Author : Mark A. Fabrizi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781538166055

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Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature by Mark A. Fabrizi Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries covering authors, subgenres, tropes, awards, organizations, and important terms related to horror.,

Author : Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476679679

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Horror Comes Home by Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper Pdf

Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the monsters out--until it isn't. This collection of new essays focuses on genre horror movies in which the home is central to the narrative, whether as refuge, prison, menace or supernatural battleground. The contributors explore the shifting role of the home as both a source and a mitigator of the terrors of this world, and the next. Well known films are covered--including Psycho, Get Out, Insidious: The Last Key and Winchester House--along with films produced outside the U.S. by directors such as Alejandro Amenabar (The Others), Hideo Nakata (Ringu) and Guillermo Del Toro (The Orphanage), and often overlooked classics like Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger.

Author : Kimberly Jackson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137532756

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Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror by Kimberly Jackson Pdf

Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal decline and post-feminist ideology are portrayed in popular American horror films of the twenty-first century. Through analyses of such films as Orphan, Insidious, and Carrie, Kimberly Jackson reveals how the destruction of male figures and depictions of female monstrosity in twenty-first-century horror cinema suggest that contemporary American culture finds itself at a cultural standstill between a post-patriarchal society and post-feminist ideology.

Author : Nancy Tatom Ammerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199370566

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Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes by Nancy Tatom Ammerman Pdf

Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to them and the routines they take for granted, and the times and places where the everyday and ordinary meet the spiritual. In addition to interviews and observation, Ammerman bases her findings on a photo elicitation exercise and oral diaries, offering a window into the presence and absence of religion and spirituality in ordinary lives and in ordinary physical and social spaces. The stories come from a diverse array of ninety-five Americans -- both conservative and liberal white Protestants, African American Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Wiccans, and people who claim no religious or spiritual proclivities -- across a range that stretches from committed religious believers to the spiritually neutral. Ammerman surveys how these people talk about what spirituality is, how they seek and find experiences they deem spiritual, and whether and how religious traditions and institutions are part of their spiritual lives.

Author : Debra Bernardi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Domestic fiction, American
ISBN : WISC:89064207046

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Domestic Horrors by Debra Bernardi Pdf

Author : Sarah Baker,Amanda Rutherford,Richard Pamatatau
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789819949656

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Contemporary Horror on Screen by Sarah Baker,Amanda Rutherford,Richard Pamatatau Pdf

This book highlights how horror in film and television creates platforms to address distinct areas of modern-day concern. In examining the prevalence of dark tropes in contemporary horror films such as Get Out, Annabelle: Creation, A Quiet Place, Hereditary and The Nun, as well as series such as Stranger Things, American Horror Story and Game of Thrones, amongst numerous others, the authors contend that we are witnessing the emergence of a ‘horror renaissance’. They posit that horror films or programmes, once widely considered to be a low form of popular culture entertainment, can contain deeper meanings or subtext and are increasingly covering serious subject matter. This book thus explores how horror is utilised as a tool to explore social and political anxieties of the cultural moment and is thus presented as a site for contestation, exploration and expansion to discuss present-day fears. It demonstrates how contemporary horror reflects the horror of modern-day life, be it political, biological, social or environmental. A vital contribution to studies of the horror genre in contemporary culture, and the effect it has on social anxieties in a threatening and seemingly apocalyptic time for the world, this is a vital text for students and researchers in popular culture, film, television and media studies.

Author : Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns,Matthew Edwards
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040090046

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Critical Readings on Hammer Horror Films by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns,Matthew Edwards Pdf

This collection offers close readings on Hammer’s cycle of horror films, analysing key films and placing particular emphasis on the narratives and themes present in the works discussed. Ranging from the studio’s first horror outing, The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (1935) to Hammer’s last contemporary film, Doctor Jekyll (2023), the collection celebrates cult-favourites such as The Quatermass Experiment, the films of Terence Fisher, to overlooked classics such as Captain Clegg or The Mummy franchise. This volume also delves into Hammer’s psychological thrillers, the studio’s venture into TV with Hammer’s House of Horrors, with theoretical frameworks varying from queer studies to postcolonial readings. This volume will appeal to scholars and students of film studies, international cinema, film history and horror studies.

Author : Cleaver Patterson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476638041

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Don't Go Upstairs! by Cleaver Patterson Pdf

Throughout cinematic history, the buildings characters inhabit--whether stately rural mansions or inner-city apartment blocks--have taken on extra dimensions, often featuring as well developed characters themselves. Nowhere is this truer than in the horror film, where familiar spaces--from chaotic kitchens to forgotten attics to overgrown greenhouses--become settings for diabolical acts or supernatural visitations. Showing readers through a selection of prime movie real estate, this book explores how homes come to life in horror with an analysis of more than sixty films, including interviews and insights from filmmakers and scholars, along with many rare stills. From the gruesome murder in the hallway of The House by the Cemetery (1981) to the malevolent haunting in the nursery of Eel Marsh House in The Woman in Black (2012), no door is left unopened.