Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film, Updated Edition

by Tony Williams and Tony Williams

Book Overview

Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film traces the origins of the 1970s family horror subgenre to certain aspects of American culture and classical Hollywood cinema. Far from being an ephemeral and short-lived genre, horror actually relates to many facets of American history from its beginnings to the present day. Individual chapters examine aspects of the genre, its roots in the Universal horror films of the 1930s, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628461071
• ISBN13: 9781628461077
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"