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245 00 a| Planks of reason :b| essays on the horror film /c| edited by Barry Keith Grant and Christopher Sharrett.;

250 a| Rev. ed.;

260 a| Lanham, Md. :b| Scarecrow Press,c| 2004.;

300 a| xv, 416 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 22 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-395) and index.;

505 0 a| The mummy's pool / Bruce Kawin -- Faith and idolatry in the horror film / J.P. Telotte -- Conditions of pleasure in horror cinema / Dennis Giles -- The aesthetics of fright / Morris Dickstein -- The witch in film : myth and reality / Sharon Russell -- Daughters of darkness : the lesbian vampire on film / Bonnie Zimmerman -- 'Canyons of nightmare': the Jewish horror film / Lester D. Friedman -- An introduction to the American horror film / Robin Wood -- Eros and syphilization : the contemporary horror film / Dana B. Polan -- Rich and strange : the yuppie horror film / Barry Keith Grant -- Enunciation and the production of horror in White zombie / Edward Lowry and Richard Decordova -- King Kong : ape and essence / Noel Carroll -- The comic and the grotesque in James Whale's Frankenstein films / Janice R. Welsch and Syndy M. Conger -- Film, society and ideas : Nosferatu and horror of Dracula / Lane Roth -- Ritual, tension and relief : the terror of The tingler / Mikita Brottman -- AIP's Pit and the pendulum : Poe as drive-in gothic / Rick Worland -- The idea of apocalypse in The Texas chainsaw massacre / Christopher Sharrett -- Archetypal landscape and Jaws / Jonathan Lemkin -- Biological alchemy and the films of David Cronenberg / Mary B. Campbell -- The enemy within : the economy of violence in The hills have eyes / D.N. Rodowick -- Halloween : suspense, aggression and the look / Steve Neale -- Demons in the family : tracking the Japanese "uncanny mother film" from A page of madness to Ringu / Ruth Goldberg.;

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700 1 a| Grant, Barry Keith,d| 1947-=| ^A93445;

700 1 a| Sharrett, Christopher.=| ^A586636;

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Planks of reason : essays on the horror film / edited by Barry Keith Grant and Christopher Sharrett.

Other author	Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-
Other author	Sharrett, Christopher.
Format	Book
Edition	Rev. ed.
Publication Info	Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Description	xv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subjects	Horror films--History and criticism.

Contents	The mummy's pool / Bruce Kawin -- Faith and idolatry in the horror film / J.P. Telotte -- Conditions of pleasure in horror cinema / Dennis Giles -- The aesthetics of fright / Morris Dickstein -- The witch in film : myth and reality / Sharon Russell -- Daughters of darkness : the lesbian vampire on film / Bonnie Zimmerman -- 'Canyons of nightmare': the Jewish horror film / Lester D. Friedman -- An introduction to the American horror film / Robin Wood -- Eros and syphilization : the contemporary horror film / Dana B. Polan -- Rich and strange : the yuppie horror film / Barry Keith Grant -- Enunciation and the production of horror in White zombie / Edward Lowry and Richard Decordova -- King Kong : ape and essence / Noel Carroll -- The comic and the grotesque in James Whale's Frankenstein films / Janice R. Welsch and Syndy M. Conger -- Film, society and ideas : Nosferatu and horror of Dracula / Lane Roth -- Ritual, tension and relief : the terror of The tingler / Mikita Brottman -- AIP's Pit and the pendulum : Poe as drive-in gothic / Rick Worland -- The idea of apocalypse in The Texas chainsaw massacre / Christopher Sharrett -- Archetypal landscape and Jaws / Jonathan Lemkin -- Biological alchemy and the films of David Cronenberg / Mary B. Campbell -- The enemy within : the economy of violence in The hills have eyes / D.N. Rodowick -- Halloween : suspense, aggression and the look / Steve Neale -- Demons in the family : tracking the Japanese "uncanny mother film" from A page of madness to Ringu / Ruth Goldberg.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-395) and index.
LCCN	2004006623
ISBN	0810850133 (alk. paper)

Planks of reason : essays on the horror film / edited by Barry Keith Grant and Christopher Sharrett.

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