Dark Thoughts: Philosophic Reflections on Cinematic Horror

by Steven Jay Schneider

This is a collection of highly engaging and provocative essays by top scholars in the increasingly interrelated fields of Philosophy, Film Studies, and Communication Arts that deal with the epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and genre dynamics of horror cinema past and present, reveals that our fascination with horror cinema, and the pleasure we take in it, is in the end simply a natural extension of a philosopher's inclination to wonder...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810847922
• ISBN13: 9780810847927
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"