Subversive Horror Cinema: Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present by Jon Towlson

Subversive Horror Cinema: Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present

Jon Towlson

246 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction horror dark tense slow-paced
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Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma--the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Vietnam era, post-9/11- and this book argues that a succession of filmmakers working in horror--from James Whale to Jen and Sylvia...

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