Deformed and destructive beings
the purpose of horror films
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Word Count
56,750 words, Guess
Page Count
227 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100786463074
- ISBN-139780786463077
- Library of Congress Control Number2010052836
- OCLC Control Number693750989
- Better World Books9780786463077
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL25043026M
Classifications
- DDC791.43/6164
- LCCPN1995.9.H6 O25 2011
- LCCPN1995.9.H6O25 2011
Description
"This critical text proposes that the horror film's primary purpose is to present monsters. These monsters satisfy the audience's desire to know the extremities of being, in particular those beings too fantastic and dangerous to know in real life. The text illuminates many aspects of the horror film genre, including epistemology, ethics, evaluation, history, monster taxonomy, and techniques"--
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