Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Inven Ted Modern Horror

by Jason Zinoman

Book Overview

An enormously entertaining account of the gifted and eccentric directors who gave us the golden age of modern horror in the 1970s, bringing a new brand of politics and gritty realism to the genre.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594203024
• ISBN13: 9781594203022
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher