Subversive Horror Cinema: Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present

by Jon Towlson

Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma--the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Vietnam era, post-9/11--and this critical text argues that a succession of filmmakers working in horror--from James Whale to Jen and Sylvia Soska--have used the genre, and the shock value it affords, to challenge the status quo during these times. Spanning the decades from the 1930s onward it examines the work of producers and directors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786474696
• ISBN13: 9780786474691
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher