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Title American horrors : essays on the modern American horror film / edited by Gregory A. Waller.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1987.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  791.4309 Am35    ---  Available
Description 228 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Filmography: p. [195]-205.
Bibliography: p. [206]-219.
Contents Night of the living dead : it's not like just a wind that's passing through / R.H.W. Dillard -- The trauma of infancy in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's baby / Virginia Wright Wexman -- Seeing is believing : The exorcist and Don't look now / Marsha Kinder and Beverle Houston --Eyes of Laura Mars : a binocular critique / Lucy Fischer and Marcia Landy -- Returning the look : Eyes of a stranger / Robin Wood -- The stalker film, 1978-81 / Vera Dika -- The funhouse and The howling / Bruce F. Kawin - Through a pumpkin's eye : the reflexive nature of horror / J.P. Telotte -- "The fallen wonder of the world" : Brian De Palma's horror films / Allison Graham -- Made-for-television horror films / Gregory A. Waller --More dark dreams : some notes on the recent horror film / Charles Derry -- Bringing it all back home : family economy and generic exchange / Vivian Sobchack.
Subject Horror films -- History and criticism.
Added Author Waller, Gregory A. (Gregory Albert), 1950-
ISBN 0252014472 (hard : alk. paper)
0252014480 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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