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Halloween by Murray Leeder
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.76The 1970s represented an unusually productive and innovative period for the horror film, and John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) is the film that capped that golden age - and some say ruined it, by... -
Refocus: the Films of William Castle Murray Leeder 9781474455107
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81With an influence felt on directors like Joe Dante, Robert Zemeckis and John Waters, this volume reappraises Castle's legacy as an innovator as much as a showman.Book InformationISBN... -
The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema by Murray Leeder
SciFier: £26.99This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema's first years. The book takes up the familiar notion of cinema as a "ghostly," "spectral" or "haunted" medium... -
Refocus: the Films of William Castle Murray Leeder 9781474424264
SciFier: £97.54The first collection of essays devoted to Hollywood director William CastleOften described as 'the Master of Gimmicks', William Castle is best known for the outrageous publicity stunts that... -
Horror Film: A Critical Introduction Murray Leeder (University of Calgary, Canada) 9781501314421
SciFier: £103.99Throughout the history of cinema, horror has proven to be a genre of consistent popularity, which adapts to different cultural contexts while retaining a recognizable core. Horror Film: A Critical... -
Horror Film: A Critical Introduction Murray Leeder (University of Calgary, Canada) 9781501314438
SciFier: £41.08Throughout the history of cinema, horror has proven to be a genre of consistent popularity, which adapts to different cultural contexts while retaining a recognizable core. Horror Film: A Critical... -
Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era Murray Leeder (University of Alberta, Canada) 9781628922134
SciFier: £31.99In 1896, Maxim Gorky declared cinema "the Kingdom of Shadows." In its silent, ashen-grey world, he saw a land of spectral, and ever since then cinema has had a special relationship with the haunted... -
Dead Funny: The Humor of American Horror David Gillota 9781978834170
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £51.93Horror films strive to make audiences scream, but they also garner plenty of laughs. In fact, there is a long tradition of horror directors who are fluent in humor, from James Whale to John Landis to... -
Dead Funny: The Humor of American Horror David Gillota 9781978834163
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56Horror films strive to make audiences scream, but they also garner plenty of laughs. In fact, there is a long tradition of horror directors who are fluent in humor, from James Whale to John Landis to... -
Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9780823297900
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £21.01Finalist, 2021 Bram Stoker Awards (Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction) The first collection of essays to address Satan's ubiquitous and popular appearances in film Lucifer and cinema have been... -
White Terror: The Horror Film from Obama to Trump Russell Meeuf 9780253060389
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £16.26What kinds of terror lurk beneath the surface of White respectability? Many of the top-grossing US horror films between 2008 and 2016 relied heavily on themes of White, patriarchal fear and...