Worland, Rick. <br/><br/>
The horror film :  an introduction / 
Rick Worland. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Malden, MA :  Blackwell Pub.,  2007. 
 - xii, 324 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - New approaches to film genre ;  2 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-303) and index. 
<br/><br/> List of illustrations --  Acknowledgments --  Introduction : undying monsters --  short history of the horror film : beginnings to 1945 --  short history of the horror film : 1945 to the present --  Monsters among us : cases of social reception --  Edges of the horror film : Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, and The unknown (1927) --  Frankenstein (1931) and Hollywood expressionism --  Cat people (1942) : Lewton, Freud, and suggestive horror --  Horror in "the age of anxiety" : Invasion of the body snatchers (1956) --  Slaughtering genre tradition : The Texas chain saw massacre (1974) --  Halloween (1978) : the shape of the slasher film --  Re-animator (1985) and slapstick horror --  Demon lover : Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) --  Afterword : our haunted houses --  Appendix : Horror auteurs --  Notes --  Index.  1.  2. A  3. A  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1405139013 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781405139014 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1405139021 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781405139021 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006017117 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Horror films--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995.9.H6  / W64 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.436164