Horror

By Brigid Cherry

Book Overview

In this Routledge Film Guidebook, audience researcher and film scholar Brigid Cherry provides a comprehensive overview of the horror film and explores how the genre works. Examining the way horror films create images of gore and the uncanny through film technology and effects, Cherry provides an account of the way cinematic and stylistic devices create responses of terror and disgust in the viewer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415456681
• ISBN13: 9780415456685
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"