Selling the Splat Pack: The DVD Revolution and the American Horror Film

by Mark Bernard

Book Overview

Were brutal American horror movies like the Saw and Hostel films a reaction to the trauma of 9/11? Or was something else responsible for the rise of these violent and gory films during the first decade of the twenty-first century? This study reveals the history of how the emergence of the DVD market changed cultural and industrial attitudes about horror movies and film ratings. These changes made way for increasingly violent horror films,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474405584
• ISBN13: 9781474405584
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"