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Contemporary British Horror Cinema : Industry, Genre and Society / Johnny Walker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748689736
  • 9780748689743
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.H6 W245 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Long time dead -- 2. British film production and the horror genre -- 3. Nasty resurrections -- 4. In the doghouse -- 5. Heartless hoodies -- 6. Let the quiet ones in -- 7. A kingdom of horror -- Bibliography -- Films and television programmes -- Index
Summary: A scholarly and critical overview of UK horror film production since the year 2000Read Chapter 1: Long Time Dead online for free (pdf)Combining industrial research and primary interview material with detailed textual analysis, Contemporary British Horror Cinema looks beyond the dominant paradigms which have explained away British horror in the past, and sheds light on one of the most dynamic and distinctive - yet scarcely talked about - areas of contemporary British film production. Considering high-profile theatrical releases, including The Descent, Shaun of the Dead and The Woman in Black, as well as more obscure films such as The Devil's Chair, Resurrecting the Street Walker and Cherry Tree Lane, Contemporary British Horror Cinema provides a thorough examination of British horror film production in the twenty-first century.Key FeaturesThe first academic monograph exclusively dedicated to recent British horror productionDraws upon the various international factors at work within the increasingly complex British film industry, and the impact this has on popular genre productionLocates British horror amid trends in international horror cinema"
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Long time dead -- 2. British film production and the horror genre -- 3. Nasty resurrections -- 4. In the doghouse -- 5. Heartless hoodies -- 6. Let the quiet ones in -- 7. A kingdom of horror -- Bibliography -- Films and television programmes -- Index

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A scholarly and critical overview of UK horror film production since the year 2000Read Chapter 1: Long Time Dead online for free (pdf)Combining industrial research and primary interview material with detailed textual analysis, Contemporary British Horror Cinema looks beyond the dominant paradigms which have explained away British horror in the past, and sheds light on one of the most dynamic and distinctive - yet scarcely talked about - areas of contemporary British film production. Considering high-profile theatrical releases, including The Descent, Shaun of the Dead and The Woman in Black, as well as more obscure films such as The Devil's Chair, Resurrecting the Street Walker and Cherry Tree Lane, Contemporary British Horror Cinema provides a thorough examination of British horror film production in the twenty-first century.Key FeaturesThe first academic monograph exclusively dedicated to recent British horror productionDraws upon the various international factors at work within the increasingly complex British film industry, and the impact this has on popular genre productionLocates British horror amid trends in international horror cinema"

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)