Terrifying Texts: Essays on Books of Good and Evil in Horror Cinema - Tapa blanda

 
9781476671307: Terrifying Texts: Essays on Books of Good and Evil in Horror Cinema
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ISBN 10: 1476671303 ISBN 13: 9781476671307
Editorial: McFarland, 2018

Sinopsis

From Faust (1926) to The Babadook (2014), books have been featured in horror films as warnings, gateways, prisons and manifestations of the monstrous. Ancient grimoires such as the Necronomicon serve as timeless vessels of knowledge beyond human comprehension, while runes, summoning diaries, and spell books offer their readers access to the powers of the supernatural--but at what cost?u2028 This collection of new essays examines nearly a century of genre horror in which on-screen texts drive and shape their narratives, sometimes unnoticed. The contributors explore American films like The Evil Dead (1981), The Prophecy (1995) and It Follows (2014), as well as such international films as Eric Valette’s Malefique (2002), Paco Cabeza’s The Appeared (2007) and Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond (1981).

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Acerca del autor

Cynthia J. Miller, a cultural anthropologist focussing on popular culture and visual media, teaches in the Institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College in Boston. She is the editor or coeditor of more than a dozen scholarly volumes, many exploring the horror genre.

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From Faust (1926) to The Babadook (2014), books have been featured in horror films as warnings, gateways, prisons and manifestations of the monstrous. Ancient grimoires such as the Necronomicon serve as timeless vessels of knowledge beyond human comprehension, while runes, summoning diaries, and spell books offer their readers access to the powers of the supernatural--but at what cost?€ This collection of new essays examines nearly a century of genre horror in which on-screen texts drive and shape their narratives, sometimes unnoticed. The contributors explore American films like The Evil Dead (1981), The Prophecy (1995) and It Follows (2014), as well as such international films as Eric Valette's Malefique (2002), Paco Cabeza's The Appeared (2007) and Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (1981).

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Editorial
McFarland
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1476671303
ISBN 13 
9781476671307
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
270
Editor
Van Riper A. Bowdoin, Miller Cynthia J.
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