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The Modern British Horror Film / Steven Gerrard.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Quick Takes: Movies and Popular CulturePublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780813579467
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/61640941 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.H6 G385 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. The Hooded Terror -- 2. The Great Outdoors -- 3. The Dead Inside, the Dead Outside, the Stranger Within -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Magazines, Films, TV Series -- Index
Summary: When you think of British horror films, you might picture the classic Hammer Horror movies, with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and blood in lurid technicolor. Yet British horror has undergone an astonishing change and resurgence in the twenty-first century, with films that capture instead the anxieties of post-Millennial viewers. Tracking the revitalization of the British horror film industry over the past two decades, media expert Steven Gerrard also investigates why audiences have flocked to these movies. To answer that question, he focuses on three major trends: "hoodie horror" movies responding to fears about Britain's urban youth culture; "great outdoors" films where Britain's forests, caves, and coasts comprise a terrifying psychogeography; and psychological horror movies in which the monster already lurks within us. Offering in-depth analysis of numerous films, including The Descent, Outpost, and The Woman in Black, this book takes readers on a lively tour of the genre's highlights, while provocatively exploring how these films reflect viewers' gravest fears about the state of the nation. Whether you are a horror buff, an Anglophile, or an Anglophobe, The Modern British Horror Film is sure to be a thrilling read.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. The Hooded Terror -- 2. The Great Outdoors -- 3. The Dead Inside, the Dead Outside, the Stranger Within -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Magazines, Films, TV Series -- Index

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When you think of British horror films, you might picture the classic Hammer Horror movies, with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and blood in lurid technicolor. Yet British horror has undergone an astonishing change and resurgence in the twenty-first century, with films that capture instead the anxieties of post-Millennial viewers. Tracking the revitalization of the British horror film industry over the past two decades, media expert Steven Gerrard also investigates why audiences have flocked to these movies. To answer that question, he focuses on three major trends: "hoodie horror" movies responding to fears about Britain's urban youth culture; "great outdoors" films where Britain's forests, caves, and coasts comprise a terrifying psychogeography; and psychological horror movies in which the monster already lurks within us. Offering in-depth analysis of numerous films, including The Descent, Outpost, and The Woman in Black, this book takes readers on a lively tour of the genre's highlights, while provocatively exploring how these films reflect viewers' gravest fears about the state of the nation. Whether you are a horror buff, an Anglophile, or an Anglophobe, The Modern British Horror Film is sure to be a thrilling read.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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