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Re-Imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media by Madelon Hoedt
SciFier: £107.70Despite its necessary centrality within the genre, the concept of the victim has not received much direct attention within the field of horror studies. Arguably, their presence is so ubiquitous as to... -
Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene Christy Tidwell (Associate Professor of English & Humanities, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology) 9780271090214
SciFier: £100.49Ecohorror represents human fears about the natural world-killer plants and animals, catastrophic weather events, and disquieting encounters with the nonhuman. Its portrayals of animals, the... -
Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film Peter Hutchings 9781526151186
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.16Peter Hutchings's Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into print for the first time in two decades. Featuring... -
Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film Peter Hutchings 9781526163424
RRP: £81.00SciFier: £76.99Peter Hutchings's Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into print for the first time in two decades. Featuring... -
Seeing the Apocalypse by Brandon R. Grafius
SciFier: £87.99Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box is the first volume to explore Josh Malerman's best-selling novel and its recent film adaptation, which broke streaming records and became a cultural... -
The Nightmare Before Christmas Dr. Filipa Antunes (Lecturer in Humanities, University of East Anglia, UK) 9798765113608
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £26.09This edited collection considers The Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history, considering the different layers of meaning and history of the film from pre-production... -
Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror Victoria McCollum 9781611463071
SciFier: £92.99Taking a theoretical, historical and critical approach to horror directed by women, Bloody Women considers how the gender landscape of horror filmmaking is changing. It unearths the long and rich... -
Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror Victoria McCollum 9781611463095
SciFier: £33.99Bloody Women traces changing gender dynamics in the horror film industry to explore how women have played a crucial role in defining the genre of horror understood as a scholarly discipline, cultural... -
Games of Terror by Vera Dika
SciFier: £69.23This is a historical and structural study of the Stalker Film. As a subcategory of the more general Slasher Film, the Stalker Film is often characterised by an off-screen presence that dominates the... -
Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw Steve Jones 9780230319417
SciFier: £112.99The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to popular horror and analyses key torture porn films,... -
Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture by Miranda Corcoran
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £23.63In the decades since the Second World War, the teenage witch has emerged as a major American cultural trope. Appearing in films, novels, comics and on television, adolescent witches have long... -
Violence in the Films of Stephen King by Tony Magistrale
SciFier: £87.99In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King's work-ranging from the earliest films in the King canon to his most... -
Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw Steve Jones 9781349339952
RRP: £109.99SciFier: £92.99The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to popular horror and analyses key torture porn films,... -
Horror in Classical Literature by Edmund P. Cueva
SciFier: £69.23No in- or out-of-print book has the same goals, content, wide range, and scholarly approach as the present study. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, previously published books have neglected... -
Horror and Comics by Barbara Chamberlin
SciFier: £69.23This collection investigates the evolution of comics and horror by analysing a range of approaches and traditions. International contributors explore how multiple aspects of comics (forms, cultures,... -
Theatre and the Macabre by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £23.77The 'macabre', as a process and product, has been haunting the theatre - and more broadly, performance - for thousands of years. In its embodied meditations on death and dying, its thematic and... -
Star Trek Discovery and the Female Gothic by Carey Millsap-Spears
SciFier: £78.49While many scholars agree the Gothic mode has been a precursor to science fiction since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Carey Millsap-Spears argues in this book that the made for streaming series Star... -
Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer Sorcha Ni Fhlainn 9780719096921
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £66.83Clive Barker: Dark imaginer explores the diverse literary, film and visionary creations of the polymathic and influential British artist Clive Barker. In this necessary and timely collection,... -
Queer for Fear by Heather O. Petrocelli
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £55.45Queer for Fear analyses the relationship queer people have to horror film, building upon decades of theory that previously emphasised horror's queerness as being subtextual, allegorical and... -
Subversive Horror Cinema by Jon Towlson
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.61Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma - the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Vietnam era, post-9/11; this book argues that a succession of filmmakers working... -
Pirates in History and Popular Culture by Antonio Sanna
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81This collection of new essays covers the myriad portrayals of the figure of the pirate in historical records, literary narratives, films, television series, opera, anime and games. Contributors... -
Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer Sorcha Ni Fhlainn 9781526135698
SciFier: £22.99Clive Barker: Dark imaginer explores the diverse literary, film and visionary creations of the polymathic and influential British artist Clive Barker. In this necessary and timely collection,... -
Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975 Michael Guarneri 9781474458122
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £19.09Positioning itself at the intersection of Italian film history, horror studies and cultural studies, this fascinating book asks why, and how, was the protean, transnational and transmedial figure of... -
The Birth of the American Horror Film Gary D. Rhodes 9781474430869
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £25.21Although early cinema has long been a key area of research in film studies, the origin and development of the horror film has been a neglected subject for what is arguably one of the world's most... -
Videogames and Horror by Dawn Stobbart
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £23.77Videogames are full of horrors - and of horror, a facet of the media that has been largely overlooked by the academic community in terms of lengthy studies in the fast-growing field of videogame... -
Horror Film and Otherness Adam Lowenstein 9780231205771
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.07What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and... -
Japanese Horror Culture by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
SciFier: £88.49Contemporary Japanese horror is deeply rooted in the folklore of its culture, with fairy tales-like ghost stories embedded deeply into the social, cultural, and religious fabric. Ever since the... -
Horror Film and Otherness Adam Lowenstein 9780231205764
RRP: £117.00SciFier: £94.31What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and... -
Body Gothic by Xavier Aldana Reyes
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £69.23The gothic, particularly in its contemporary incarnations, is often constructed around largely disembodied concepts such as spectrality or the haunted. Body Gothic offers a counter-narrative that... -
Violence in the Films of Stephen King by Michael J. Blouin
SciFier: £33.99In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King's work-ranging from the earliest films in the King canon to his most... -
The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936 by Jon Towlson
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Critics have traditionally characterized classic horror by its use of shadow and suggestion. Yet the graphic nature of early 1930s films only came to light in the home video/DVD era. Along with... -
Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss Erica Joan Dymond 9781793633934
SciFier: £92.99Over the course of the past two decades, horror cinema around the globe has become increasingly preoccupied with the concept of loss. Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss examines the... -
The Postmodern Slasher Film Steve Jones (Assistant Professor in Media and Film, Northumbria University) 9781399537100
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.49Scream reputedly transformed the slasher subgenre in 1996, heralding a new subgeneric form: the postmodern slasher. Despite being a distinctive, influential phase in the subgenre's development, it... -
Serial Killers in Contemporary Television by Brett A.B. Robinson (Brock University, Canada)
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53This volume examines the significant increase in representations of serial killers as central characters in popular television over the last two decades. Via critical analyses of the philosophical... -
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century Jessica Balanzategui 9789462986510
SciFier: £112.07The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the turn of the twenty-first century. By analysing an influential... -
Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To? David Roche 9781496802545
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more ""disturbing,"" and thus better... -
Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To? David Roche 9781617039621
SciFier: £72.95In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more ""disturbing,"" and thus better... -
Why Horror Seduces Mathias Clasen 9780190666507
RRP: £117.50SciFier: £100.99From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved... -
Why Horror Seduces Mathias Clasen 9780190666514
SciFier: £39.99From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved... -
Catholic Horror and Rhetorical Dialectics by Gavin F. Hurley
SciFier: £87.99Identifying an important subgenre of horror literature, this book argues that Catholic horror fiction works distinctively to inspire the philosophical, theological, and spiritual imaginations of...