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Nightmare Movies

Kim Newman
Nightmare Movies Book PDF

Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408817506

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Now over twenty years old, the original edition of Nightmare Movies has retained its place as a true classic of cult film criticism. In this new edition, Kim Newman brings his seminal work completely up-to-date, both reassessing his earlier evaluations and adding a second part that assess the last two decades of horror films with all the wit, intelligence and insight for which he is known. Since the publication of the first edition, horror has been on a gradual upswing, and taken a new and stronger hold over the film industry. Newman negotiates his way through a vast back-catalogue of horror, charting the on-screen progress of our collective fears and bogeymen from the low budget slasher movies of the 60s, through to the slick releases of the 2000s, in a critical appraisal that doubles up as a genealogical study of contemporary horror and its forebears. Newman invokes the figures that fuel the ongoing demand for horror - the serial killer; the vampire; the werewolf; the zombie - and draws on his remarkable knowledge of the genre to give us a comprehensive overview of the modern myths that have shaped the imagination of multiple generations of cinema-goers. Nightmare Movies is an invaluable companion that not only provides a newly updated history of the darker side of film but a truly entertaining guide with which to discover the less well-trodden paths of horror, and re-discover the classics with a newly instructed eye.

Nightmare Movies

Kim Newman
Nightmare Movies Book PDF

Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408805039

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Nightmare Movies by Kim Newman Pdf

Now over twenty years old, the original edition ofNightmare Movies has retained its place as a true classic of cult filmcriticism. In this new edition, Kim Newman brings his seminal work completelyup to date, both reassessing his earlier evaluations and adding a second partthat analyses the last two decades of horror films with all the wit,intelligence and insight for which he is known. Since the publication of thefirst edition, horror has been on a gradual upswing and has gained a new andstronger hold over the film industry. Newman negotiates his way through a vastback catalogue of horror and charts the on-screen progress of our collectivefears and bogeymen, from the low-budget slasher movies of the 1960s, through tothe slick releases of the 2000s. Nightmare Movies is an invaluable companion that not onlyprovides a newly updated history of the darker side of film but also acts as atruly entertaining guide with which to explore the less well-trodden paths ofhorror and rediscover the classics with a newly instructed eye.

Nightmare Fuel

Nina Nesseth
Nightmare Fuel Book PDF

Author : Nina Nesseth
Publisher : Tor Nightfire
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781250765222

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Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth Pdf

Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth is a pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under our skin, and why we keep coming back for more. Do you like scary movies? Have you ever wondered why? Nina Nesseth knows what scares you. She also knows why. In Nightmare Fuel, Nesseth explores the strange and often unexpected science of fear through the lenses of psychology and physiology. How do horror films get under our skin? What about them keeps us up at night, even days later? And why do we keep coming back for more? Horror films promise an experience: fear. From monsters that hide in plain sight to tension-building scores, every aspect of a horror film is crafted to make your skin crawl. But how exactly do filmmakers pull this off? The truth is, there’s more to it than just loud noises and creepy images. With the affection of a true horror fan and the critical analysis of a scientist, Nesseth explains how audiences engage horror with both their brains and bodies, and teases apart the elements that make horror films tick. Nightmare Fuel covers everything from jump scares to creature features, serial killers to the undead, and the fears that stick around to those that fade over time. With in-depth discussions and spotlight features of some of horror’s most popular films—from classics like The Exorcist to modern hits like Hereditary—and interviews with directors, film editors, composers, and horror academics, Nightmare Fuel is a deep dive into the science of fear, a celebration of the genre, and a survival guide for going to bed after the credits roll. “An invaluable resource, a history of the horror genre, a love letter to the scary movie—it belongs on any horror reader’s bookshelf.” —Lisa Kröger, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Monster, She Wrote At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Nightmare Movies

Kim Newman
Nightmare Movies Book PDF

Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Horror films
ISBN : UCSC:32106015815969

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Newman examines classic horror subgenres such as devil movies, psycho movies, and down-home movies and ferrets out common themes for a deeper understanding.

Screams & Nightmares

Brian J. Robb
Screams Nightmares Book PDF

Author : Brian J. Robb
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781913538736

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Screams & Nightmares by Brian J. Robb Pdf

Writer, producer, and director Wes Craven has successfully tapped into the horror vein for over forty years, serving up scary, funny, cutting-edge thrillers that have become classics in the genre. His films have been both critical and commercial successes, most notably Nightmare on Elm Street, which spawned a series of sequels and made Craven (and his creation, Freddy Kruger) an international sensation. He then created a second indelible series in the horror movie trope with Scream. In Screams & Nightmares, Brian J. Robb examines Craven's entire career, from his low-budget beginnings to his most recent box office hits, from the banned thriller The Last House on the Left and the cult classic The Hills Have Eyes to the outrageous Shocker and The People Under the Stairs. Through exclusive interviews with Craven, Robb provides in-depth accounts of the making of each of the films – including the final instalments of the Scream series – Craven's foray into writing novels, and his numerous television projects.

Film Theory Goes to the Movies

Jim Collins,Ava Preacher Collins,Hilary Radner
Film Theory Goes to the Movies Book PDF

Author : Jim Collins,Ava Preacher Collins,Hilary Radner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135216450

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Film Theory Goes to the Movies by Jim Collins,Ava Preacher Collins,Hilary Radner Pdf

Film Theory Goes to the Movies fills the gap in film theory literature which has failed to analyze high-grossing blockbusters. The contributors in this volume, however, discuss such popular films as The Silence of the Lambs, Dances With Wolves, Terminator II, Pretty Woman, Truth or Dare, Mystery Train, and Jungle Fever. They employ a variety of critical approaches, from industry analysis to reception study, to close readings informed by feminist, deconstructive and postmodernist theory, as well as recent developments in African American and gay and lesbian criticism. An important introduction to contemporary Hollywood, this anthology will be of interest to those involved in the fields of film theory, literary theory, popular culture, and women's studies.

Nightmare USA

Stephen Thrower
Nightmare USA Book PDF

Author : Stephen Thrower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123375268

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Nightmare USA by Stephen Thrower Pdf

From Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill) to Eli Roth (Hostel), the young guns of modern Hollywood just can't get enough of that exploitation film high. That's because, between 1970 and 1985, American Exploitation movies went berserk. Nightmare USA is the reader's guide to what lies beyond the mainstream of American horror, dispelling the shadows to meet the men and women behind 15 years of screen terror: The Exploitation Independents! Ranging from cult favourites like I Drink Your Blood to stylish mind-benders like Messiah of Evil.

Nightmare Movies

Kim Newman
Nightmare Movies Book PDF

Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : IND:30000067206064

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Nightmare Movies by Kim Newman Pdf

"Nightmare Movies is a non-fiction book about horror films by British critic and novelist Kim Newman. It was first published in 1985 and had later editions published in 1988, 1989, and 2011"--Wikipedia

Cinema Italiano

Howard Hughes
Cinema Italiano Book PDF

Author : Howard Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857719782

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Cinema Italiano by Howard Hughes Pdf

Italian filmmakers have created some of the most magical and moving, violent and controversial films in world cinema. During its twentieth-century heyday, Italy's film industry was second only to Hollywood as a popular film factory, exporting cinematic dreams with multinational casts to the world, ranging across multiple genres. 'Cinema Italiano' is the first book to discuss comprehensively and in depth this Italian cinema, both popular and arthouse. It is illustrated throughout with rare stills and international posters from this revered era in European cinema and reviews over 350 movies. Howard Hughes uncovers this treasure trove of Italian films, from Lucino Visconti's epic 'The Leopard' to the cult superhero movie 'Puma Man'. Dario Argento's bloody 'gialli' thrillers and Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns are explored alongside films of Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Michelangelo Antonioni. Chapters discuss the rise and fall of genres such as mythological epics, gothic horrors, science fiction, spy films, war movies, costume adventures, zombie films, swashbucklers, political cinema and 'poliziotteschi' crime films. They also trace the directorial careers of Mario Bava, Sergio Corbucci, Francesco Rosi, Lucio Fulci, Duccio Tessari, Enzo G. Castellari, Bernardo Bertolucci and Gillo Pontecorvo.

Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema

Francesco Pascuzzi,Bryan Cracchiolo
Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema Book PDF

Author : Francesco Pascuzzi,Bryan Cracchiolo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781611477825

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Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema by Francesco Pascuzzi,Bryan Cracchiolo Pdf

This book explores the oneiric in Italian cinema from filmic representations and visualizations of dreams, nightmares, hallucinations, and dream-like and hypnotic states, to dreams as cinematic allegories and metaphors and the theoretical frameworks applied to the investigation of this relationship.

Gothic Realities

L. Andrew Cooper
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Author : L. Andrew Cooper
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786457880

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Gothic Realities by L. Andrew Cooper Pdf

Eighteenth-century critics believed Gothic fiction would inspire deviant sexuality, instill heretical beliefs, and encourage antisocial violence—this book puts these beliefs to the test. After examining the assumptions behind critics’ fears, it considers nineteenth-century concerns about sexual deviance, showing how Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dorian Gray, and other works helped construct homosexuality as a pathological, dangerous phenomenon. It then turns to television and film, particularly Buffy the Vampire Slayer and David DeCoteau’s direct-to-video movies, to trace Gothicized sexuality’s lasting impact. Moving to heretical beliefs, Gothic Realities surveys ghost stories from Dickens’s A Christmas Carol to Poltergeist, articulating the relationships between fiction and the “real” supernatural. Finally, it considers connections between Gothic horror and real-world violence, especially the tragedies at Columbine and Virginia Tech.

Wax Museum Movies

George Higham
Wax Museum Movies Book PDF

Author : George Higham
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476640112

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Wax Museum Movies by George Higham Pdf

Spanning over a century of cinema and comprised of 127 films, this book analyzes the cinematic incarnations of the "uncanniest place on earth"--wax museums. Nothing is as it seems at a wax museum. It is a place of wonder, horror and mystery. Will the figures come to life at night, or are they very much dead with corpses hidden beneath their waxen shells? Is the genius hand that molded them secretly scarred by a terrible tragedy, longing for revenge? Or is it a sinner's sanctum, harboring criminals with countless places to hide in plain sight? This chronological analysis includes essential behind the scenes information in addition to authoritative research comparing the creation of "real" wax figures to the "reel" ones seen onscreen. Publicly accessible or hidden away in a maniac's lair, wax museums have provided the perfect settings for films of all genres to thrillingly play out on the big screen since the dawn of cinema.

Contemporary British Horror Cinema

Walker Johnny Walker
Contemporary British Horror Cinema Book PDF

Author : Walker Johnny Walker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748689750

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Contemporary British Horror Cinema by Walker Johnny Walker Pdf

Combining industrial research and primary interview material with detailed textual analysis, Contemporary British Horror Cinema looks beyond the dominant paradigms which have explained away British horror in the past, and sheds light on one of the most dynamic and distinctive - yet scarcely talked about - areas of contemporary British film production. Considering high-profile theatrical releases, including The Descent, Shaun of the Dead and The Woman in Black, as well as more obscure films such as The Devil's Chair, Resurrecting the Street Walker and Cherry Tree Lane, Contemporary British Horror Cinema provides a thorough examination of British horror film production in the twenty-first century.

Film and Television In-Jokes

Bill van Heerden
Film and Television In Jokes Book PDF

Author : Bill van Heerden
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476612065

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Film and Television In-Jokes by Bill van Heerden Pdf

In Only the Lonely (1991), Ally Sheedy appeases prospective mother-in-law Maureen O’Hara by going along to see the 1939 film How Green Was My Valley—starring Maureen O’Hara. Richard LaGravenese, slighted by critic Gene Siskel over his screenplay for The Fisher King (1991) wrote an unsavory character named Siskel into The Ref (1994). Movies and television shows often feature inside jokes. Sometimes there are characters named after crew members. Directors are often featured in cameo appearances—Alfred Hitchcock’s silhouette can be seen in Family Plot (1976), for example. This work catalogs such occurrences. Each entry includes the title of the film or show, year of release, and a full description of the in-joke.

British Horror Cinema

Steve Chibnall,Julian Petley
British Horror Cinema Book PDF

Author : Steve Chibnall,Julian Petley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134582587

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British Horror Cinema by Steve Chibnall,Julian Petley Pdf

The horror film is now one of the most popular and talked about film genres and yet, outside of the Hammer studio, very little has been written about British horror. Going beyond Hammer, the book investigates a wealth of horror filmmaking in Britain from early chillers like The Ghoul and Dark Eyes of London to acknowledged classics such as Peeping Tom and The Wicker Man.