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The Monster Show
- A Cultural History of Horror
Engelsk Paperback
The Monster Show
- A Cultural History of Horror
Engelsk Paperback

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Featuring a new Afterword by the author.

Illuminating the dark side of the American century, The Monster Show uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror''s function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements.

With penetrating analyses and revealing anecdotes, David J. Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive modes of cultural expression. He explores the disguised form in which Hollywood''s classic horror movies played out the traumas of two world wars and the Depression; the nightmare visions of invasion and mind control catalyzed by the Cold War; the preoccupation with demon children that took hold as thalidomide, birth control, and abortion changed the reproductive landscape; the vogue in visceral, transformative special effects that paralleled the development of the plastic surgery industry; the link between the AIDS epidemic and the current fascination with vampires; and much more.

Now with a new Afterword by the author that looks at horror''s popular renaissance in the last decades, The Monster Show is a compulsively readable, thought-provoking inquiry into America''s obsession with the macabre.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
448
ISBN-13:
9780571199969
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
1
ISBN-10:
0571199968
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 okt 2001
Længde:
33mm
Bredde:
209mm
Højde:
141mm
Forlag:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Oplagsdato:
15 okt 2001
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