Horror Films:
A Selected Bibliography/Videography of Materials in the UC Berkeley












Books
Journal Articles
Books and Articles About Hammer Films
Books and Articles About Slasher Films

Articles and Books on Individual Films

Science Fiction & Fantasy Film Bibliography
David Cronenberg Bibliography
Serial Killers in the Movies (separate page)
Books and Articles about Val Lewton

Books

Alternative Europe: eurotrash and exploitation cinema since 1945
Edited by Ernest Mathijs & Xavier Mendik; [foreword by Jean Rollin]. London; New York: Wallflower, 2004.
MAIN: PN1995.9.S284 A46 2004

American horrors: essays on the modern American horror film
Edited by Gregory A. Waller. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1987.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 A391 1987
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 A39 1987

American nightmare[videorecording]
Knife-weilding murderers, buxom teens fleeing for their lives, the undead limping across streets. These images are synonymous with horror movies. Go behind-the-scenes with filmmaker greats as they reveal their inspirations for some of the most disturbingly gruesome films that have emerged on screen. Includes excerpts from classic horror films. 2000. 71 min. Media Resources Center: DVD 2417

American nightmare: essays on the horror film
Andrew Britton ... [et al.]. Toronto: Festival of Festivals, c1979.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 .A4

The American nightmare [videorecording]
Knife-weilding murderers, buxom teens fleeing for their lives, the undead limping across streets. These images are synonymous with horror movies. Go behind-the-scenes with filmmaker greats as they reveal their inspirations for some of the most disturbingly gruesome films that have emerged on screen. Includes excerpts from classic horror films. DVD 2417

Ancuta, Katarzyna.
Where angels fear to hover : between the gothic disease and the meataphysics of horror Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, c2005.
MAIN: PN3435 .A49 2005

Andriano, Joseph
Immortal monster: the mythological evolution of the fantastic beast in modern fiction and film / Joseph D. Andriano. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. Series title: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy no. 78.
UCB Main PS374.M544 A53 1999

Attack of the monster movie makers: interviews with 20 genre giants
By Tom Weaver; research associates, Michael and John Brunas. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1994.
UCB Main PN1995.9.S26 A94 1994

Badley, Linda.
Film, horror, and the body fantastic / Linda Badley. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. Series title: Contributions to the study of popular culture no. 48.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 B24 1995
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 B24 1995
This fascinating study relates horror film to recent interpretations of the body and the self, drawing from feminist film theory, psychoanalytic theory, cultural criticism and gender studies. Applying the term "horror" broadly, this work includes discussions of black comedy, thrillers, science fiction, and slasher films. Central to this book is the view of horror as a modern iconography and "discourse" of the body. Badley's thought-provoking analysis of films by directors Tim Burton, Tobe Hooper, George Romero, Ridley Scott, Brian De Palma, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Jonathan Demme, and Clive Barker, will be of interest to both scholars and students. [publisher description]

Becker, Susanne.
Gothic forms of feminine fictions / Susanne Becker. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press; New York: Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.
UCB Main PR830.W6 B4 1999

Bellin, Joshua David.
Framing monsters : fantasy film and social alienation Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2005.
MAIN: PN1995.9.F36 B45 2005; View current status of this item
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004023653.html

Benshoff, Harry M.
Monsters in the closet: homosexuality and the horror film / Harry M. Benshoff. Manchester [England]; New York: Manchester University Press; New York: Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1997. Series title: Inside popular film.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H55 B457 1997
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H55 B457 1997

Berenstein, Rhona J.
Attack of the leading ladies: gender, sexuality, and spectatorship in classic horror cinema / Rhona J. Berenstein. New York: Columbia University Press, c1996. Series title: Film and culture.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 B48 1996
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 B48 1996

The BFI companion to horror
Edited by Kim Newman; foreword by Ramsey Campbell. London: Cassell, 1996.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 B5 1996

Bissette, Stephen R.
"Curtis Harrington and the Underground Roots of the Modern Horror Film." In: Underground U.S.A.: filmmaking beyond the Hollywood canon / edited by Xavier Mendik & Steven Jay Schneider. pp: 40-50. London; New York: Wallflower Press, 2002. AlterImage.
Main Stack PN1995.9.E96.U34 2002

Bitches, bimbos, and virgins: women in the horror film
Edited by Gary J. Svehla and Susan Svehla. Baltimore, Md.: Midnight Marquee Press, c1996.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 B54 1996

Black, Joel.
"Real(ist) Horror: From Execution Videos to Snuff Films." In: Underground U.S.A.: filmmaking beyond the Hollywood canon / edited by Xavier Mendik & Steven Jay Schneider. pp: 63-75. London; New York: Wallflower Press, 2002. AlterImage.
Main Stack PN1995.9.E96.U34 2002

Boyd, Annita
"Conventional Texts-Experimental Contexts: The Institutional Use of Horror Films in Experimental Psychology." In: Seriously weird: papers on the grotesque / edited by Alice Mills. pp: 225-37 New York: P. Lang, c1999. Studies on themes and motifs in literature; vol. 43
Main Stack PN56.G7.S47 1999

British horror cinema
Edited by Steve Chibnall and Julian Petley. London; New York: Routledge, 2002.
Main Stack PN1995.9.H6 B65 2002

Brosnan, John.
The horror people / John Brosnan. New York: St. Martin's Press, c1976.
UCB Main PN1998.A2 .B6866

Brottman, Mikita
Offensive films: toward an anthropology of cinema vomitif / Mikita Brottman. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997. Series title: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy no. 72.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 B67 1997

Brunas, Michael.
Universal horrors: the studio's classic films, 1931-1946 / by Michael Brunas, John Brunas, Tom Weaver. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1990.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 B7 1990
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 B7 1990

Butler, Ivan.
The horror film / By Ivan Butler. London: Zwemmer; New York: A.S. Barnes, 1967. Series title: The International film guide series.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 B8

Butler, Ivan.
Horror in the cinema. [2d rev. ed.]. London, Zwemmer, New York, Barnes [1970]. Series title: The International film guide series.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 B8 1970

Caligari's heirs : the German cinema of fear after 1945
Edited by Steffen Hantke. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 C37 2007;
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0617/2006023867.html

Campbell, Mary B.
"Biological Alchemy and the Films of David Cronenberg." In: Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film / edited by Barry Keith Grant. pp: 307-320. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1984.
Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.P56 1984
Moffitt PN1995.9.H6.P56 1984
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0416/2004006623.html

Carroll, Noel (Noel E.)
"Nightmare and the horror film: the symbolic biology of fantastic beings." In: The anxious subject: nightmares and daymares in literature and film / edited and introduced by Moshe Lazar. Malibu, Calif.: Udena, 1983. Interplay; 2.
Main Stack PN1995.3.A5 1983
Also in:
Film Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 3. (Spring, 1981), pp. 16-25.
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Carroll, Noel (Noel E.)
The philosophy of horror, or, Paradoxes of the heart / Noel Carroll. New York: Routledge, 1990.
UCB Main PN56.H6 C37 1990
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Cherry, Brigid.
"Refusing to Refuse to Look: Female Viewers of the Horror Film." In: Identifying Hollywood's audiences: cultural identity and the movies / edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby. London: British Film Institute, 1999.
Main Stack PN1993.5.U65.I34 1999

Cinema macabre
Edited by Mark Morris ; introduction by Jonathan Ross. 1st ed. Hornsea, England : PS, 2006.
Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.C495 2006

The Cinema of John Carpenter: the technique of terror
Edited by Ian Conrich & David Woods. London : Wallflower, 2004
Main Stack PN1998.3.C38.C56 2004
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy053/2005391212.html

Clarens, Carlos.
Horror movies; an illustrated survey. [New] ed. retitled, revised and enlarged. London, Secker & Warburg, 1968.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 C5 1968

Clarens, Carlos.
An illustrated history of the horror film / by Carlos Clarens. New York: Capricorn Books, 1968, c1967. Series title: A Capricorn giant;.
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 C5

Clark, Stephanie Brown
"Frankenflicks: medical monsters in classic horror films." In: Cultural sutures: medicine and media / edited by Lester D. Friedman. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 2004.
Public Hlth RA440.5.C835 2004

Clemens, Valdine
The return of the repressed: gothic horror from The Castle of Otranto to Alien / Valdine Clemens. Albany: State University of New York Press, c1999. Series title: SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
UCB Main PR830.T3 C59 1999

Clover, Carol J.
"The eye of horror." In: Viewing positions: ways of seeing film / edited, and with an introduction by Linda Williams. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c1995. Rutgers depth of field series.
Grad Svcs PN1995.V437 1995
Main Stack PN1995.V437 1995
Moffitt PN1995.V437 1995

Colavito, Jason.
Knowing fear : science, knowledge and the development of the horror genre Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2008. MAIN: PN56.H6 C66 2008

Collings, Michael R.
The films of Stephen King / Michael R. Collings. Mercer Island, Wash.: Starmont House, 1986. Series title: Starmont studies in literary criticism; no. 12.
UCB Moffitt PS3561.I483 Z623 1986

Conner, Jeff.
Stephen King goes to Hollywood: a lavishly illustrated guide to all the films based on Stephen King's fiction / written by Jeff Conner. New York: New American Library, c1987.
UCB Main PS3561.I483 Z62871 1987

Conrich, Ian.
"Traditions of the British Horror Film." In: The British cinema book / edited by Robert Murphy. 2nd ed. pp: 226-32. London: British Film Institute, 2001.
Main Stack PN1993.5.G7.B66 2001

Cotter, Bobb.
The Mexican masked wrestler and monster filmography Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2005.
MAIN: PN1995.9.W74 C68 2005
BANC: PN1995.9.W74 C68 2005;
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip056/2005000889.html

Crane, Jonathan Lake
Terror and everyday life: singular moments in the history of the horror film / Jonathan Lake Crane. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c1994.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 C72 1994
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 C72 1994
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Creed, Barbara.
"Dark desires: male masochism in the horror film." In: Screening the male: exploring masculinities in Hollywood cinema / edited by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark. London; New York: Routledge, c1993.
Main Stack PN1995.9.M46.S36 1993
Moffitt PN1995.9.M46.S36 1993

Creed, Barbara.
"Gynesis, postmodernism and the science fiction horror film." In: Alien zone: cultural theory and contemporary science fiction cinema / edited by Annette Kuhn. London; New York: Verso, 1990.
Main Stack PN1995.9.S26.A818 1990
Moffitt PN1995.9.S26.A818 1990

Creed, Barbara.
"Horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection." In: Feminist film theory: a reader / edited by Sue Thornham. New York: New York University Press, 1999.
Grad Svcs PN1995.9.W6.F465 1999 Non-circulating; may be used only in Graduate Services.
Main Stack PN1995.9.W6.F465 1999
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Creed, Barbara.
"Horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection." In: Feminist film theory: a reader / edited by Sue Thornham. New York: New York University Press, 1999.
Grad Svcs PN1995.9.W6.F465 1999 Non-circulating; may be used only in Graduate Services.
Main Stack PN1995.9.W6.F465 1999

Creed, Barbara.
The monstrous-feminine: film, feminism, psychoanalysis / Barbara Creed. London; New York: Routledge, 1993. Series title: Popular fiction series.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 C74 1993
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Cumbow, Robert C.
Order in the universe : the films of John Carpenter Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2000.
MAIN: PN1998.3.C38 C8 2000
MAIN: PN1998.3.C38 C8 1990 [earlier edition]
The films of John Carpenter cover a tremendous range and yet all bear his clear personal stamp. From the horrifying (Halloween) to the touching (Starman) to the controversial (The Thing) to the comic (Big Trouble in Little China), his films reflect a unique approach to filmmaking and singular views of humanity and American culture. This analysis of Carpenter?s films includes a historical overview of his career, and in-depth entries on each of his films, from 1975?s Dark Star to 1998?s Vampires. Complete cast and production information is provided for each. The book also covers those films written and produced by Carpenter, such as Halloween II and Black Moon Rising, as well as Carpenter?s work for television. Appendices are included on films Carpenter was offered but turned down, the slasher films that followed in the wake of the highly-successful Halloween, the actors and characters who make repeated appearances in Carpenter?s films, and ratings for Carpenter?s work. Notes, bibliography, and index are included. [publisher's description]

Curubeto, Diego.
Cine bizarro: 100 aos de peliculas de terror, sexo y violencia / Diego Curubeto. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, c1996.
Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.C8 1996

Dark thoughts: philosophic reflections on cinematic horror
Edited by Steven Jay Schneider, Daniel Shaw. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2003.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 D27 2003
Contents: Horror, tragedy, and pleasure. The general theory of horrific appeal / Noel Carroll -- The mastery of Hannibal Lecter / Daniel Shaw -- The lived nightmare: trauma, anxiety, and the ethical aesthetics of horror / Elizabeth Cowie -- Aristotelian reflections on horror and tragedy in An American werewolf in London and The sixth sense / Angela Curran -- Horror's philosopher-auteurs. Heidegger, the uncanny, and Jacques Tourneur's horror films / Curtis Bowman -- Hitchcock made only one horror film: matters of time, space, causality, and the Schopenhauerian will / Ken Mogg -- What you can't see can hurt you: of invisible and hollow men / J.P. Telotte -- Philosophical (horror) investigations. On the question of the horror film / Michael Grant -- An event-based definition of art-horror / Matt Hills -- Haunting the house from within: disbelief, mitigation, and spatial experience / Aaron Smuts -- Murder as art/the art of murder: aestheticizing violence in modern cinematic horror / Steven Jay Schneider -- Horror and reality. The slasher's blood lust / Cynthia A. Freeland -- American psycho: horror, satire, aesthetics, and identification / Deborah Knight and George McKnight -- Real horror / Robert C. Solomon (with reply from Daniel Shaw).

Davis, Blair
"Banquet and the beast: the civilizing role of food in 1930s horror films." In: Reel food: essays on food and film / edited by Anne L. Bower. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Main Stack PN1995.9.F65.R44 2004

Deal, David
Television fright films of the 1970s Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2007.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 D33 2007
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007005129.html

Derry, Charles
Dark dreams: a psychological history of the modern horror film / Charles Derry. South Brunswick: A. S. Barnes, c1977.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 D38
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 D38

Dika, Vera
Games of terror: Halloween, Friday the 13th, and the films of the stalker cycle / Vera Dika. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, c1990.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 D48 1990
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 D48 1990

Dillard R.H.W.
"Even a man who is pure at heart: poetry and danger in the horror film." In: Man and the movies. Edited by W. R. Robinson with assistance from George Garrett. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press [1967]
Main Stack PN1995.M27 NRLF #: B 3 567 797

Dixon, Wheeler W.
"The limits of cinematic spectacle: considerations on the horror film." In: The transparency of spectacle: meditations on the moving image / Wheeler Winston Dixon. Albany: State University of New York Press, c1998. SUNY series in postmodern culture.
Main Stack PN1995.D52 1998

Douglas, Drake.
Horror!. New York, Macmillan [1966].
NRLF $B 120 657

Douglas, Drake.
Horrors! / Drake Douglas. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1989.
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 D6 1988

The dread of difference: gender and the horror film
Edited by Barry Keith Grant. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Series title: Texas film studies series.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 D74 1996
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Dyson, Jeremy.
Bright darkness: the lost art of the supernatural horror film / Jeremy Dyson; with a foreword by Peter Crowther. London; Washington: Cassell, 1997.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 D97 1997

Edmundson, Mark
Nightmare on Main Street: angels, sadomasochism, and the culture of Gothic / Mark Edmundson. 1st Harvard University Press paperback ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
UCB Main PS374.G68 E36 1997

Ellis, Reed.
A journey into darkness: the art of James Whale's horror films / Reed Ellis. New York: Arno Press, 1980. Series title: Dissertations on film 1980.
UCB Moffitt PN1998.A3 .W4774 1980

Erens, Patricia Brett.
"The Stepfather: Father as Monster in the Contemporary Horror Film." In: The dread of difference: gender and the horror film / edited by Barry Keith Grant. 1st ed. pp: 352-63. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Texas film studies series.
Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.D74 1996

Eros in the mind's eye: sexuality and the fantastic in art and film /
Edited by Donald Palumbo. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. Series title: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy no. 21.
UCB Main PN1995.9.S45 E681 1986
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.S45 E68 1986

Everson, William K.
Classics of the horror film / by William K. Everson. 1st ed. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, c1974.
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 E9

Eye on science fiction: 20 interviews with classic SF and horror filmmakers
By by Tom Weaver. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c2003.
MAIN: PN1995.9.S26 E9 2003
Contents: Herman Cohen on Lon Chaney, Jr. -- Mike Connors -- Susan Douglas on Five -- Arnold Drake on The flesh eaters -- Robert M. Fresco -- Alex Gordon on The atomic submarine -- Brett Halsey -- John Hart -- David Hedison on Voyage to the bottom of the sea -- Russ Jones on Dr. Terror's gallery of horrors -- Richard Kiel on Eegah -- Kay Linaker on Tod Browning and James Whale -- Teala Loring -- Robert Nichols -- Ted Post on Bela Lugosi -- William Self -- Natalie Trundy -- Martin Varno on Night of the blood beast -- Beverly Washburn -- William Wellman, Jr.

The fantastic vampire : studies in the children of the night: selected essays from the Eighteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
Edited by James Craig Holte. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (18th : 1997 : Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
Main Stack PR830.V3.I58 1997
Contents: Shapeshifting Dracula : the abridged edition of 1901 / Elizabeth Miller -- Bram Stoker and Irish Gothic / Raymond T. McNally -- Dracula's reflection : The jewel of seven stars / Katie Harse -- "Appalling in its gloomy fascination" : Stoker's Dracula and Wilde's Salome / William Pencak -- Stoker's Dracula : a neo-Gothic experiment / Scott Vander Ploeg -- Men in love : the fantasizing of Bram Stoker and Edvard Munch / Suzanna Nyberg -- Bela Lugosi's dead, but vampire music stalks the airwaves / Tony Fonseca -- Policing Eddie Murphy : the unstable black body in Vampire in Brooklyn / Leslie Tannenbaum -- Resurrection in Britain : Christopher Lee and Hammer Draculas / James Craig Holte -- I, Strahd : narrative voice and variations on a non-player character in TSR's "Ravenloft" universe / Margaret Carter -- The mother goddess in H. Rider Haggard's She and Anne Rice's The queen of the damned / Bette Roberts -- Blood spirit/blood bodies : the viral in the vampire chronicles of Anne Rice and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro / Heidi L. Nordberg -- Kelene : the face in the mirror / Stephanie Moss -- The construction of the vampire in Yarbro's Hotel Transylvania / Sharon A. Russell -- Deadly kisses : vampirism, colonialism, and the gendering of horror / Teri Ann Doerksen -- "A girl like that will give you AIDS!" : vampirism as AIDS metaphor in Killing Zoe / Jeane Rose.

Fantasy and horror: a critical and historical guide to literature, illustration, film, TV, radio, and the Internet
Edited by Neil Barron. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1999.
Main Stack NX650.F36.F34 1999
Doe Refe NX650.F36.F34 1999 Non-circulating.
Moffitt Refe NX650.F36.F34 1999

Fantasy and the cinema
Edited by James Donald. London: BFI Pub., 1989.
UCB Main PN1995.9.F36 F361 1989
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9 F36

Fear without frontiers: horror cinema across the globe
Edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Published: Godalming: FAB, 2003.
PFA PN1995.9.H6 F42 2003

Fischer, Dennis.
Horror film directors, 1931-1990 / Dennis Fischer. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1991.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 F5 1991

Fonseca, Anthony J.
Hooked on horror: a guide to reading interests in horror fiction / Anthony J. Fonseca and June Michele Pulliam; foreword by Stine Fletcher. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1999. Series title: Genreflecting advisory series.
UCB Main PN3435.A12 F66 1999

Frank, Alan G.
The horror film handbook / Alan Frank. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1982.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 .F67 1982

Freeland, Cynthia A.
"Feminist Frameworks for Horror Films." In: Post-theory: reconstructing film studies / edited by David Bordwell and Noel Carroll. pp: 195-218 Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c1996. Wisconsin studies in film.
Main Stack PN1994.P6565 1996

Freeland, Cynthia A.
The naked and the undead: evil and the appeal of horror / Cynthia A. Freeland. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2000. Series title: Thinking through cinema.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 F755 2000

Freeland, Cynthia A.
"Realist horror." In: Philosophy and film / edited and with a introduction by Cynthia A. Freeland and Thomas E. Wartenberg. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Main Stack PN1995.P499 1995

Gagne, Paul R.
The zombies that ate Pittsburgh: the films of George A. Romero / by Paul R. Gagne; introduction by Tom Allen. 1st ed. New York: Dodd, Mead, c1987.
UCB Main PN1998.A3 R63441 1987

Galbraith, Stuart
Monsters are attacking Tokyo! : the incredible world of Japanese fantasy films Venice, CA : Feral House, 1998.
MAIN: PN1995.9.M6 G36 1998

Galloway, Patrick.
Asia shock : horror and dark cinema from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Thailand Berkeley, Calif. : Stone Bridge Press, c2006.
PFA : PN1995.9.H6 G35 2006
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006028264.html

Gender, language, and myth: essays on popular narrative
Edited by Glenwood Irons. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, c1992.
UCB Main PN56.P55 G4 1992

Gilmore, Richard A.
"Horror and death at the movies." In: Doing philosophy at the movies Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.
Main Stack PN1995.G495 2005
Moffitt PN1995.G495 2005

Glut, Donald F.
Classic movie monsters / by Donald F. Glut; with an introd. by Curt Siodmak. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978.
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 G57

Gothic: critical concepts in literary and cultural studies
Edited by Fred Botting and Dale Townshend. London; New York: Routledge, 2004.
MAIN: PN3435 .G65 2004

Grant, Barry Keith
"Rich and strange: the yuppie horror film." In: Contemporary Hollywood cinema / edited by Steve Neale and Murray Smith. London; New York: Routledge, 1998.
Main Stack PN1993.5.U65.C66 1998

Greene, Doyle
The Mexican cinema of darkness : a critical study of six landmark horror and exploitation films, 1969-1988 Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2007.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 G74 2007
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007012664.html

Halberstam, Judith
Skin shows: gothic horror and the technology of monsters / Judith Halberstam. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
UCB Main PR830.T3 H27 1995
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Hanke, Ken
A critical guide to horror film series / Ken Hanke. New York: Garland Pub., 1991. Series title: Garland reference library of the humanities; vol. 1214.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 H36 1991

Hawkins, Joan
Cutting edge: art-horror and the horrific avant-garde / Joan Hawkins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2000.
UCB Main PN1995.9.E96 H38 2000
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Heffernan, Kevin.
Ghouls, gimmicks, and gold: horror films and the American movie business, 1953-1968 Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 H45 2004
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip047/2003016429.html

Hendershot, Cynthia.
The animal within: masculinity and the Gothic / Cyndy Hendershot. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998.
UCB Main PR830.T3 H39 1998

Hendershot, Cynthia.
I was a Cold War monster: horror films, eroticism, and the Cold War imagination Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c2001.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 H46 2001

Hills, Matt
The pleasures of horror New York : Continuum, c2005.
MAIN: PN3435 .H55 2005

Hogan, David
Dark romance: sexuality in the horror film / by David J. Hogan. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1986.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 H591 1986
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 H59 1986
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Holston, Kim R.
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror film sequels, series, and remakes: an illustrated filmography, with plot synopses and critical commentary / by Kim R. Holston and Tom Winchester; with a foreword by Ingrid Pitt. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1997.
UCB Main PN1995.9.S26 H59 1997

Holte, James Craig.
Dracula in the dark : the Dracula film adaptations Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
MAIN: PN1995.9.D64 H65 1997

Hopkins, Lisa
Screening the gothic Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, c2005.
MAIN: PR408.G68 H67 2005
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004024535.html

Horror at the drive-in: essays in popular Americana
Edited by Gary Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., c2003.
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 H66 2003

The horror film
Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Prince New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c2004.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 H667 2004;
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip043/2003009691.html

Horror film and psychoanalysis: Freud's worst nightmare
Edited by Steven Jay Schneider. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Cambridge studies in film.
Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.S33 2004
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam041/2003060604.html

Horror film: creating and marketing fear
Edited by Steffen Hantke. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004.
Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.H674 2004
Contents: Horror film and the apparatus of cinema / Steffen Hantke -- Spectral vampires: Nosferatu in the light of new technology / Stacey Abbott -- Imaging the abject: the ideological use of the dissolve / Claire Sisko King -- The camera's eye: peeping tom and technological perversion / Catherine Zimmer -- A film is being beaten: notes on the shock cut and the material violence of horror / David S. Diffrient -- The horror "event" movie: The mummy, Hannibal, and Signs / Philip L. Simpson -- "There is only one": the restoration of the repressed in The exorcist: the version you've never seen! / Michael Arnzen -- Proliferating horrors: survival horror and the resident evil franchise / Richard J. Hand -- Simulating torture, documenting horror: the technology of "nonfiction filmmaking" in Devil's experiment and Flowers of flesh and blood / Jay McRoy -- A nasty situation: social panics, transnationalism, and the video Nasty / James Kendrick -- From SBIGs to Mildred's inverse law of trailers: skewing the narrative of horror fan consumption / K.A. Laity -- Horror meets noir: the evolution of cinematic style, 1931-1958 / Blair Davis -- Queering consumption and production in What ever happened to Baby Jane? / Lorena Russell.

The horror film reader
Edited by Alain Silver & James Ursini. 1st Limelight ed. New York: Limelight Editions, 2000.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 H68 2000

Horror films: current research on audience preferences and reactions
Edited by James B. Weaver, III & Ron Tamborini. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1996. Series title: LEA's communication series.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 H72 1996
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 H72 1996
Contents: Preface / James B. Weaver III and Ron Tamborini -- 1. Frightening Entertainment: A Historical Perspective of Fictional Horror / Ron Tamborini and James B. Weaver III -- 2. Evolution of the Horror Genre / Dolf Zillmann and Rhonda Gibson -- 3. Content Trends in Contemporary Horror Films / Barry S. Sapolsky and Fred Molitor -- 4. The Economics of the Horror Film / Douglas Gomery -- 5. Developmental Differences in Responses to Horror / Joanne Cantor and Mary Beth Oliver -- 6. Gender-Socialization Theory of Reactions to Horror / Dolf Zillmann and James B. Weaver III -- 7. A Model of Empathy and Emotional Reactions to Horror / Ron Tamborini -- 8. An Activation-Arousal Analysis of Reactions to Horror / Glenn G. Sparks -- 9. Sensation Seeking and the Taste for Vicarious Horror / Marvin Zuckerman -- 10. A Uses and Gratifications Analysis of Horror Film Preference / Patricia A. Lawrence and Philip C. Palmgreen -- 11. Horror's Effect on Social Perceptions and Behaviors / Ron Tamborini and Kristen Salomonson.

Horror international
Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.H73 2005
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004017352.html

The horror reader
Edited by Ken Gelder. London; New York: Routledge, 2000.
UCB Main PN3435 .H69 2000
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Humphries, Reynold.
The Hollywood horror film, 1931-1941 : madness in a social landscape Published: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 H78 2006
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006002576.html

Hutchings, Peter.
Hammer and beyond: the British horror film / Peter Hutchings. Manchester, UK; New York: Manchester University Press; New York: Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1993.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 H835 1993
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 H835 1993

Hutchings, Peter.
The horror film Harlow, England; New York: Pearson Longman, 2004.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 H837 2004
MOFF: PN1995.9.H6 H837 2004

Hutchings, Peter.
"Masculinity and the horror film." In: You Tarzan: masculinity, movies, and men / edited by Pat Kirkham and Janet Thumim. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
Main Stack PN1995.9.M46.Y68 1993
Moffitt PN1995.9.M46.Y68 1993

Iaccino, James F.
Psychological reflections on cinematic terror : Jungian archetypes in horror films Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1994.
MAIN PN1995.9.H6 I23 1994

Icons of horror and the supernatural : an encyclopedia of our worst nightmares
Edited by S.T. Joshi. <2007> Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
MAIN: PN56.H6 I26 2007
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip071/2006031212.html

Jancovich, Mark.
American horror from 1951 to the present / Mark Jancovich. Staffordshire, England: Keele University Press, 1994. Series title: BAAS pamphlet; 28.
UCB Main PS648.H6 J35 1994

Jancovich, Mark.
Rational fears: American horror in the 1950s / Mark Jancovich. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press; New York, NY, USA: Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1996.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 J37 1996

Japanese horror cinema
Edited by Jay McRoy. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2005.
PFA PN1995.9.H6.J36 2005b
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 J36 2005b

Jensen, Paul M.
The men who made the monsters / Paul M. Jensen. New York: Twayne; London: Prentice Hall International, c1996. Series title: Twayne's filmmakers series.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 J46 1996
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 J46 1996

Johnson, Tom
Censored screams: the British ban on Hollywood horror in the thirties / Tom Johnson; with forewords by Richard Gordon and Tom Weaver; afterword by Greg Mank. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1997.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 J65 1997

Jones, E. Michael.
Monsters from the Id: the rise of horror in fiction and film / E. Michael Jones. Dallas, Tex: Spence Pub. Co., 2000.
UCB Main PN3435 .J66 2000

Joslin, Lyndon W.
Count Dracula goes to the movies: Stoker's novel adapted, 1922-1995 / by Lyndon W. Joslin. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., c1999.
UCB Main PR6037.T617 D784 1999

Kawin, Bruce F.
"Children of the Light." In: Film genre reader III Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2003.
GRDS: PN1995 .F45793 2003; Non-circulating; may be used only in Graduate Services.
MAIN: PN1995 .F45793 2003
PFA: PN1995.9.G4 F4 2003

Kendrick, Walter M.
The thrill of fear: 250 years of scary entertainment / Walter Kendrick. 1st ed. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991.
UCB Main PR830.T3 K4 1991

Kinnard, Roy
Horror in silent films: a filmography, 1896-1929 / by Roy Kinnard. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1995.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 K46 1995

Klossner. Michael
"Horror on film and television." In: Horror literature: a reader's guide / edited by Neil Barron. New York: Garland Pub., 1990. Garland reference library of the humanities; vol. 1220
Main Stack PN3435.A12.H67 1990

Kovacs, Lee.
The haunted screen: ghosts in literature and film / by Lee Kovacs. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., c1999.
Main Stack PN1995.9.S8.K68 1999

Leffler, Yvonne.
Horror as pleasure: the aesthetics of horror fiction / Yvonne Leffler; translated by Sara Death. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, c2000.
UCB Main PN3435 .L385 2000

Lentz, Harris M.
Science fiction, horror & fantasy film and television credits / Harris M. Lentz III. 2nd ed. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2001.
UCB Info Ctr PN1995.9.S26 L46 2001 v.1-3 (2001)
UCB Main PN1995.9.S26 L46 2001 v.1-3 (2001)

Lentz, Harris M.
Science fiction, horror and fantasy film and television credits
By Harris M. Lentz, III. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1983.
UCB Main PN1995.9.S26 L46 1983 v.1-2 (1983)

Lentz, Harris M.
Science fiction, horror & fantasy film and television credits. Supplement 2, through 1993 / compiled by Harris M. Lentz III. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1994.
UCB Main PN1995.9.S26 L46 1994 Suppl.
UCB Media Ctr PN1995.9.S26 L46 1994 Suppl.

Lowenstein, Adam.
Shocking representation : historical trauma, national cinema, and the modern horror film New York : Columbia University Press, c2005.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 L69 2005

Lyden, John
Thrillers and horror movies." In: Film as religion: myths, morals, and rituals / John C. Lyden. New York: New York University Press, c2003.
Main Stack PN1995.5.L89 2003

Maddrey, Joseph
Nightmares in red, white and blue: the evolution of the American horror film Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c2004.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 M24 2004
Moffitt: PN1995.9.H6 M24 2004
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Magistrale, Anthony S.
Hollywood's Stephen King New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
MAIN: PS3561.I483 Z758 2003
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol041/2003056464.html

Manchel, Frank.
Terrors of the screen. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1970].
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 M31 1970

Manguel, Alberto.
Bride of Frankenstein / Alberto Manguel. London: British Film Institute, 1997. Series title: BFI film classics.
UCB Main PN1997.B73 M36 1997

Mank, Gregory W.
Hollywood cauldron: thirteen horror films from the genre's golden age / by Gregory William Mank. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1994.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 M315 1994

Mank, Gregory W.
Karloff and Lugosi: the story of a haunting collaboration, with a complete filmography of their films together / by Gregory William Mank. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1990.
UCB Main PN2287.K25 M36 1990

Mank, Gregory W.
Women in horror films, 1930s / by Gregory William Mank. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1999.
UCB Main PN1995.9.W6 M354 1999

McCallum, Lawrence.
Italian horror films of the 1960s: a critical catalog of 62 chillers / by Lawrence McCallum. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1998.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 M3249 1998

McCarty, John
Movie psychos and madmen: film psychopaths from Jekyll and Hyde to Hannibal Lecter / by John McCarty. Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Pub. Group, c1993.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 M328 1993
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 M328 1993

McDonough, Jimmy.
The ghastly one: the sex-gore netherworld of filmmaker Andy Milligan / Jimmy McDonough. 1st ed. Chicago, IL: A Cappella, c2001.
Main Stack PN1998.3.M555.M49 2001

McLarty, Lianne.
"'Beyond the Veil of the Flesh': Cronenberg and the Disembodiment of Horror." In: The dread of difference: gender and the horror film / edited by Barry Keith Grant. pp: 231-52 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Texas film studies series.
Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.D74 1996

Mendik, Xavier.
"'Gouts of Blood': The Colourful Underground Universe of Herschell Gordon Lewis." In: Underground U.S.A.: filmmaking beyond the Hollywood canon / edited by Xavier Mendik & Steven Jay Schneider. pp: 188-97. London; New York: Wallflower Press, 2002. AlterImage.
Main Stack PN1995.9.E96.U34 2002

Milne, Tom.
The Overlook film encyclopedia. Horror Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, c1995.
PFA : PN1995.9.H6 M5 1995

Mitchell, Charles P.
The devil on screen: feature films worldwide, 1913 through 2000 / Charles P. Mitchell. Jefferson, N.C.: London: McFarland, 2002.
Main Stack PN1995.9.S8.M58 2002

The modern fantastic: the films of David Cronenberg
Edited by Michael Grant. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000.
Main Stack PN1998.3.C75.M63 2000

Modleski, Tania.
"The Terror of Pleasure: The Contemporary Horror Film and Postmodern Theory." In: Film theory and criticism: introductory readings / edited by Leo Braudy, Marshall Cohen. 5th ed. pp: 691-700. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Main Stack PN1994.M364 1999

Muir, John Kenneth
Eaten alive at a chainsaw massacre: the films of Tobe Hooper / by John Kenneth Muir. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c2002.
Main Stack PN1998.3.H686.M85 2002

Muir, John Kenneth
The films of John Carpenter / by John Kenneth Muir. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c2000.
Main Stack PN1998.3.C38.M85 2000

Muir, John Kenneth
Horror films of the 1970s Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c2002.
Main Stack PN1995.9.H6 M85 2002

Muir, John Kenneth
Horror films of the 1980s Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2007.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 M86 2007
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006039752.html

Muir, John Kenneth
Terror television: American series, 1970-1999 / by John Kenneth Muir. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c2001.
Main Stack PN1992.8.F35.M85 2001

Muir, John Kenneth
Wes Craven: the art of horror / by John Kenneth Muir. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1998.
Main Stack PN1998.3.C72.M85 1998
Moffitt PN1998.3.C72.M85 1998

Newman, Kim.
Nightmare movies: a critical guide to contemporary horror films / Kim Newman. 1st American ed. New York: Harmony Books, c1988.
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 N4 1989

Newman, Kim.
"You better watch out: Christmas in the horror film." In: Christmas at the movies: images of Christmas in American, British and European cinema / edited by Mark Connelly. London; New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers; New York, NY: Distributed in the United States and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Main Stack PN1995.9.C5113.C66 2000
PFA PN1995.9.C5113.C47 2000

Paul, Louis
Italian horror film directors Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c2005.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 P34 2005; View current status of this item
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0418/2004013465.html

Paul, William
Laughing, screaming: modern Hollywood horror and comedy / William Paul. New York: Columbia University Press, c1994. Series title: Film and culture.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 P35 1994
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Pavlovic, Tatjana
"Gender and Spanish horror film." In: Gender and Spanish cinema Oxford: Berg, 2004.
Main Stack PN1995.9.S47.G455 2004

Petley, Julian
"The Monstrous Child" In: The body's perilous pleasures : dangerous desires and contemporary culture / editor, Michelle Aaron. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1999.
Main Stack PN1995.9.B62.B63 1999

Picart, Caroline Joan
Frames of evil : the Holocaust as horror in American film Southern Illinois University Press, c2006.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H53 P53 2006; View current status of this item
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip068/2006005129.html

Pinedo, Isabel Cristina
Recreational terror: women and the pleasures of horror film viewing / Isabel Cristina Pinedo. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1997. Series title: SUNY series, Interruptions -- Border testimony(ies) and Critical Discourse/s.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 P46 1997
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 P46 1997
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Pirie, David.
A heritage of horror; the English Gothic cinema, 1946-1972. [New York] Equinox Books/ Published by Avon, [1973].
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 P5 1973

Pitts, Michael R.
Horror film stars / by Michael R. Pitts. 2nd ed. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1991.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 P55 1991

Planks of reason: essays on the horror film
Edited by Barry Keith Grant and Christopher Sharrett. Rev. ed. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0416/2004006623.html
Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.P56 2004
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 P56 1984 [earlier edition]
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 P56 1984 [earlier edition]

Postfeminist gothic : critical interventions in contemporary culture
Edited by Benjamin A. Brabon and Stephanie Genz. Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
MAIN: PR149.P68 P67 2007
Contents: Introduction: postfeminist gothic / Benjamin A. Brabon and Stephanie Genz -- Dark departures: contemporary women's writing after the gothic / Lucie Armitt -- Neo-splatter: Bride of Chucky and the horror of heteronormativity / Judith Halberstam -- Bite-size pieces: disassembling the gothic villain in Witchblade / Rhonda V. Wilcox -- The spectral phallus: re-membering the postfeminist man / Benjamin A. Brabon -- (Re)making the body beautiful: postfeminist cinderellas and gothic tales of transformation / Stephanie Genz -- The Stepford wives: what's a living doll to do in a postfeminist world? / Anne Williams -- The postfeminist filmic female gothic detective: reading the bodily text in Candyman / Diane Long Hoeveler -- Moving beyond waste to celebration: the postcolonial/postfeminist gothic of Nalo Hopkinson's "A habit of waste" / Gina Wisker -- George Elliott Clarke's Beatrice Chancy: sublimity, pain, possibility / Donna Heiland -- Sensibility gone mad: or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the heroine of sensibility / Claire Knowles -- She: gothic reverberations in Star Trek: first contact / Linda Dryden -- Flight of the heroine / Fred Botting.

Prawer, Siegbert Salomon
Caligari's children: the film as tale of terror / S. S. Prawer. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 P68
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Quarles, Mike
Down and dirty: Hollywood's exploitation filmmakers and their movies / by Mike Quarles. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, c1993.
UCB Main PN1998.2 .Q37 1993

Rasmussen, Randy Loren
Children of the night: the six archetypal characters of classic horror films / by Randy Loren Rasmussen. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1998.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 R37 1998

Reich, Jacqueline.
"The Mother of All Horror: Witches, Gender, and the Films of Dario Argento." In: Monsters in the Italian literary imagination / edited by Keala Jewell. pp: 89-105 Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, c2001.
Main Stack PQ4053.M66.M66 2001

Reid, Mark (Mark A.)
"African American Horror Films." In: Black lenses, Black voices : African American film now / Mark A. Reid. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005. Genre and beyond
Main Stack PN1995.9.N4.R43 2005
Moffitt PN1995.9.N4.R43 2005
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004026201.html

Robb, Brian J.
Screams & nightmares: the films of Wes Craven / Brian J. Robb. 1st ed. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, c1998.
Main Stack PN1998.3.C72.R63 1999

Rockett, Will H.
Devouring whirlwind: terror and transcendence in the cinema of cruelty / Will H. Rockett. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. Series title: Contributions to the study of popular culture no. 21.
UCB Main PN1995.9.C7 R641 1988
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.C7 R64 1988
What is the attraction of horror films? Do they have any socially redeeming features? Rockett offers some surprising and provocative answers to these questions in his analysis of the cinema of cruelty. He looks at film as a means of expressing the dark side of human nature and examines the essential ingredients that go into the making of a horror film, the variations that are found within the genre, and the links between the best horror cinema and Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty. Echoing Artaud, Rockett argues that human beings are attracted to horror in films because of an unconscious craving for a reality in which the demonic supernatural acts as a "living whirlwind," "devouring the darkness" and bringing viewers closer to the transcendence they are actually seeking. The final chapter shows how the finest works in the horror genre achieve this underlying aim. [publisher description]

Royer, Carl.
The spectacle of isolation in horror films : dark parades New York : Haworth Press, c2005.
Main Stack PN1995.9.H6.R69 2005
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0422/2004020146.html

Russell, David J.
"Monster roundup: reintegrating the horror genre." In: Refiguring American film genres: history and theory / Nick Browne, editor. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998.
Grad Svcs PN1993.5.U6.R443 1998 Non-circulating; may be used only in Graduate Services.
Main Stack PN1993.5.U6.R443 1998
Moffitt PN1993.5.U6.R443 1998

Ryan, Michael; Kellner, Douglas
"Horror Films." In: Camera politica : the politics and ideology of contemporary Hollywood film / by Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1988
Moffitt PN1993.5.U6.R93 1988

Sanjek, David.
"Same As It Ever Was: Innovation and Exhaustion in the Horror and Science Fiction Films of the 1990s." In: Film genre 2000: new critical essays / edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon. pp: 111-23. Albany: State University of New York Press, c2000. SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video.
Main Stack PN1995.F45787 2000

Sarris, Andrew.
"The Horror Film." In: "You ain't heard nothin' yet": the American talking film, history & memory, 1927-1949 / Andrew Sarris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Main Stack PN1995.7.S27 1998
Moffitt PN1995.7.S27 1998

Schaefer, Eric
"Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!" : a history of exploitation films, 1919-1959 Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
Main Stack PN1995.9.S284.S33 1999
Contents: "An attempt to 'commercialize vice'": origins of the exploitation film -- "A hodge-podge of cuttings and splicings": the mode of production and the style of classical exploitation films -- "You gotta tell'em to sell'em": distribution, advertising, and exhibition of exploitation films -- "Thoroughly vile and disgusting": the exploitation film and censorship -- "No false modesty, no old-fashioned taboos": the sex hygiene film -- "The monster that caters to thrill-hungry youth": the drug film -- "Timely as today's front page": vice, exotic, and atrocity films -- "They wear no clothes!": nudist and burlesque films -- Conclusion: the end of classical exploitation.

Schechter, Harold
"The Bloody Chamber: Terror Films, Fairy Tales, and Taboo." In: Gender, language, and myth: essays on popular narrative / edited by Glenwood Irons. pp: 233-51 Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Main Stack PN56.P55.G4 1992

Schneider, Steven Jay
"Mixed Blood Couples: Monsters and Miscegenation in U. S. Horror Cinema." In: The Gothic other : racial and social constructions in the literary imagination / edited by Ruth Bienstock Anolik and Douglas ... Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2004.
Main Stack PR408.G68.G68 2004
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0417/2004008618.html

Schoell, William.
Stay out of the shower: 25 years of shocker films, beginning with "Psycho" / William Schoell. New York: Dembner Books: Distributed by W.W. Norton, c1985.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 S341 1985

Science fiction/horror
Edited by Kim Newman. London: BFI Publishing,
UCB Main Stack PN1995.9.S26 S33 2002

Senn, Bryan
Fantastic cinema subject guide: a topical index to 2500 horror, science fiction, and fantasy films / by Bryan Senn and John Johnson. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., c1992.
UCB Hum/Area PN1995.9.F36 S46 1992
UCB Info Ctr PN1995.9.F36 S46 1992

Seriously weird: papers on the grotesque
Edited by Alice Mills. New York: P. Lang, c1999. Studies on themes and motifs in literature; vol. 43
Main Stack PN56.G7.S47 1999

Sevastakis, Michael.
Songs of love and death: the classical American horror film of the 1930s / Michael Sevastakis. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. Series title: Contributions to the study of popular culture no. 37.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 S46 1993
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 S46 1993

The Shape of rage: the films of David Cronenberg
Edited by Piers Handling. Toronto, Canada: General Pub. Co.; New York, U.S.A.: New York Zoetrope, 1983.
Main Stack PN1998.A3.C79325 1983
Moffitt PN1998.A3C79325

Sherman, Fraser A.
Cyborgs, Santa Claus, and Satan: science fiction, fantasy, and horror films made for television / by Fraser A. Sherman. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c2000.
UCB Main PN1995.9.S26 S46 2000

Short, Sue
Misfit sisters : screen horror as female rites of passage Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 S53 2006
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0662/2006049418-t.html

Skal, David J.
Dark carnival: the secret world of Tod Browning--Hollywood's master of the macabre / David J. Skal and Elias Savada. 1st ed. New York: Anchor Books, 1995.
UCB Main PN1998.3.B773 S53 1995
UCB Moffitt PN1998.3.B773 S53 1995

Skal, David J.
The monster show: a cultural history of horror / David J. Skal. 1st ed. New York: Norton, c1993.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 S57 1993
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 S57 1993

Skal, David J.
Screams of reason: mad science and modern culture / David J. Skal. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton, c1998.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 S58 1998

Slusser, George
"Fantasy, science fiction, mystery, horror." In: Shadows of the magic lamp: fantasy and science fiction in film / edited by George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, c1985. Alternatives
Main Stack PN1995.9.F36.S5 1985
Moffitt PN1995.9.F36.S5 1985

Smith, Don G.
H.P. Lovecraft in popular culture : the works and their adaptations in film, television, comics, music, and games. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co.,
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005020847.html
Main Stack PS3523.O833.Z865 2006

Smith, Gary A.
Uneasy dreams: the golden age of British horror films, 1956-1976 / by Gary A. Smith; foreword by James Bernard. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c2000.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 .S618 2000

Sobchack, Vivian
"The leech woman: on the dread of aging in a low-budget horror film." In: Uncontrollable bodies: testimonies of identity and culture / edited by Rodney Sappington and Tyler Stallings. Seattle: Bay Press, c1994.
Main Stack E169.04.U53 1994

Soister, John T.
Of Gods and monsters: a critical guide to Universal Studios' science fiction, horror, and mystery films, 1929-1939 / by John T. Soister. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1999.
UCB Main PN1999.U57 S65 1999

Spadoni, Robert
Uncanny bodies : the coming of sound film and the origins of the horror genre Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 S66 2007
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0620/2006029088.html

Stell, John (John C.)
Psychos! sickos! sequels!: horror films of the 1980s / by John Stell. Baltimore, MD: Midnight Marquee Press, c1998.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 S73 1998

Taubin, Amy.
"The Allure of Decay." In: Action/spectacle cinema: a Sight and sound reader / edited by Jose Arroyo. pp: 150-55. London: British Film Institute, 2000.
Main Stack PN1995.A259 2000

Teaching the Gothic
Edited by Anna Powell and Andrew Smith. Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Main Stack PR830.T3.T43 2006
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/2006042627-t.html

Tharp, Julie.
"When the Body Is Your Own: Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre." In: Autobiographical writing across the disciplines: a reader / edited by Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey; foreword by Ru... Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.
Main Stack PE1127.A9.A98 2003
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip044/2003012317.html

Thompson, Kirsten Moana.
Apocalyptic dread : American film at the turn of the millennium Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 T47 2007
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Tohill, Cathal.
Immoral tales: European sex & horror movies 1956-1984 / Cathal Tohill & Pete Tombs. 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1995.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 T64 1995

Tudor, Andrew
Monsters and mad scientists: a cultural history of the horror movie / Andrew Tudor. Oxford [England]; New York: B. Blackwell, 1989.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 T78 1989
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 T78 1989
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Turner, George
Forgotten horrors: early talkie chillers from Poverty Row / George E. Turner, Michael H. Price. South Brunswick [N.J.]: A. S. Barnes, c1979.
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 .T8

Ursini, James.
More things than are dreamt of: masterpieces of supernatural horror, from Mary Shelley to Stephen King, in literature and film / James Ursini and Alain Silver; preface by William Peter Blatty. 1st Limelight ed. New York: Limelight Editions, 1994.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 S54 1994

Vieira, Mark A.
Hollywood horror: from gothic to cosmic New York: Harry N. Abrams, c2003.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 V58 2003

Waltje, Jorg
Blood obsession : vampires, serial murder, and the popular imagination / Jorg Waltje. New York : Peter Lang, 2005.
Main Stack PN56.V3.W36 2005
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0419/2004014687.html

Weaver, Tom
Interviews with B science fiction and horror movie makers: writers, producers, directors, actors, moguls, an makeup / by Tom Weaver; research associates, John Brunas, Michael Brunas. West Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1988.
UCB Main PN1995.9.S26 W441 1988

Weaver, Tom
It came from Weaver five: interviews with 20 zany, glib, and earnest moviemakers in the SF and horror traditions of the thirties, forties, fifties, and sixties / by Tom Weaver. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., c1996.
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.S26 W45 1996

Weaver, Tom
Poverty row horrors!: Monogram, PRC, and Republic horror films of the forties / by Tom Weaver; research associates, Michael Brunas and John Brunas. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1993.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 W38 1993

Weaver, Tom
Science fiction stars and horror heroes: interviews with actors, directors, producers, and writers of the 1940s through 1960s / by Tom Weaver; research associates, Michael and John Brunas. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1991.
UCB Main PN1995.9.S26 W46 1991

Weaver, Tom
Universal horrors : the studio's classic films, 1931-1946 Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2007.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 B7 2007
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip074/2006036001.html

Weigl, Charles E.
"Introducing Horror." In: Hop on pop: the politics and pleasures of popular culture / edited by Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson & Jane Shattuc. pp: 700-19. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002.
Main Stack E169.1.H77 2002
Moffitt E169.1.H77 2002

Weisser, Thomas
Japanese cinema encyclopedia. The horror, fantasy, and scifi films / by Thomas Weisser and Yuko Mihara Weisser; with an introduction by Oliver Stone. 1st ed. Miami, Fla.: Vital Books; Asian Cult Cinema Publications, 1997.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 W42 1997

Weigl, Charles E.
"Introducing Horror." In: Hop on pop: the politics and pleasures of popular culture / edited by Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson & Jane Shattuc. pp: 700-19. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002.
UCB Main E169.1.H77 2002

Wells, Paul.
The horror genre: from Beezlebub to Blair Witch / Paul Wells. [S.l.]: Wallflower, 2000. Series title: Short cuts.
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White, Dennis L.
"Poetics of horror: more than meets the eye." In: Cinema examined: selections from Cinema journal / Richard Dyer MacCann, Jack C. Ellis. 1st ed. New York: Dutton, c1982.
Main Stack PN1995.C495 1982

Wilkinson, Simon A.
Hollywood horror from the director's chair : six filmmakers in the franchise of fear Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2008.
MAIN: PN1995.9.H6 W45 2008

Williams, Tony
Hearths of darkness: the family in the American horror film / Tony Williams. Madison [New Jersey]: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c1996.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 W46 1996
UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.H6 W46 1996

Williams, Tony
The cinema of George A. Romero: knight of the living dead / Tony Williams. London: Wallflower, 2003. Directors' cuts.
Main Stack PN1998.3.R65.W55 2003

Williamson, Milly.
The lure of the vampire : gender, fiction and fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy London ; New York : Wallflower, 2005.
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Willis, Donald C.
Horror and science fiction films: a checklist, by Donald C. Willis. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press, 1972.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 W51

Willis, Donald C.
Horror and science fiction films III / by Donald C. Willis. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1984.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 W54 1984

Willis, Donald C.
Horror and science fiction films IV / Donald C. Willis. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1997.
UCB Main PN1995.9.H6 W543 1997

Wolf, Leonard.
Horror: a connoisseur's guide to literature and film / Leonard Wolf. New York: Facts on File, c1989.
UCB Main PN3435 .W61 1989

Wood, R.
"An introduction to the American horror film." In: Movies and methods: an anthology / edited by Bill Nichols. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1976
Main Stack PN1994.M71 Library has: v.1-2 (1976-1985)

Worland, Rick.
The horror film : an introduction Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
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Journal Articles

Anderson, Don.
"Georges Bataille: The Globular and Cross Gender Identification through Eyeball Mutilation In the Horror Film." Rhizomes: Cultural Studies Emerging. 7: 47 paragraphs. 2003 Fall.

Arnzen, Michael A.
"Who's laughing now? The postmodern splatter film." Journal of Popular Film and Television v21, n4 (Wntr, 1994):176 (9 pages).
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"Splatter film was first introduced in George Romero's neo-classic 'Night of the Living Dead' released in 1968. This film and others of its kind use gore and graphic violence to show that evil is outside the sphere to which moral judgments apply. Splatter films differ from typical horror films because they revel in the special effects of gore as an artform. They are part of postmodern art and depict postmodern condition as a vehicle for cultural transformation." [Magazine Index]

Austin, Guy
"Vampirism, gender wars and the 'Final Girl': French fantasy film in the early Seventies." French Cultural Studies 1996; 7; 321
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Baird, Robert.
"The Startle Effect: Implications for Spectator Cognition and Media Theory." Film Quarterly. 53(3):12-24. 2000 Spring.

Balmain, Colette.
"Mario Bava's The Evil Eye: Realism and the Italian Horror Film." Post Script: Essays in Film & the Humanities. 21(3):20-31. 2002 Summer
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"Balmain discusses hitMario hitBava'hits 1963 horror film "Ragazza che sapeva troppo" ("The Evil Eye") with a focus on how it does not fit into the prescribed notion of "realistic" horror films as set by Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" and Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" in 1960. The film marked the creation of a different horror/thriller genre hybrid known as "giallo," and set the genre's codes and conventions. Balmain asserts that the globalization of modern horror cinema has led to the silencing of its many variations, and consequently, the impact of auteurs such as Bava on the development of the horror film has been neglected. She emphasizes that hitBava'hits negation of psychoanalysis in "The Evil Eye" in both plot and theme sets it apart from other realistic horror films." [IIPA]

Barish, Ellen Blum.
"The thrill of chills." (horror movies) Current Health 2 v18, n7 (March, 1992):24 (2 pages). ve teenagers a temporary feeling of loss of control which may be healthy at that time in their lives. Long-term viewing can produce violent or aggressive behavior. Warning signs of when a teen may be losing perspective are given.

Baumgold, Julie.
"A graveyard smash." (horror films) (Column) Esquire v123, n1 (Jan, 1995):120 (2 pages).
Old monster films are better than most of the current offerings of the genre. Too much realism tends to spoil the story. 'Interview with the Vampire,' 'Ed Wood,' 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein' and other films are discussed.

Beal, Timothy K.
"Our monsters, ourselves." (horror and the national psyche) The Chronicle of Higher Education Nov 9, 2001 v48 i11 pB18(2)
Americans are still fascinated with monsters and horror even after the World Trade Center tragedy brought real horror to life. In horror films and stories, good eventually triumphs over the monster. The fascination with horror is also discussed in a spiritual context.

Beard, Steve.
"No particular place to go." (zombies in recent American cinema) Sight and Sound v3, n4 (April, 1993):30 (2 pages).
"George Romero's 'Night of the Living Dead' has been remade by Tom Savini. The remake differs from the original film in that it offers a variety of different explanations, rather than a single one, for the plague of zombies. Romero's zombies can be interpreted as representations of an alienated underclass, those workers and consumers who have become displaced by economic and political developments." [Expanded Academic Index]

Beavis, Mary Ann.
"'Angels Carrying Savage Weapons': Uses of the Bible in Contemporary Horror Films." Journal of Religion and Film. 7 (2): 29 paragraphs. 2003 Oct.

Becker, Matt
"A Point of Little Hope: Hippie Horror Films and the Politics of Ambivalence." Velvet Light Trap, vol. 57, pp. 42-59, Spring 2006
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Benshoff, Harry
"Blaxploitation Horror Films: Generic Reappropriation or Reinscription?" Cinema Journal 2000 Winter, 39:2, 31-50.
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Benton, Robert J.
"The return of the projected: Some thoughts on paranoia and a recent trend in horror films." Psychoanalytic Review. Vol 82(6), Dec 1995, pp. 903-931
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"Focuses on 2 interrelated changes in horror films of the last 25 years: a tendency for the "horror" to become internalized; and the use of what the author calls "bubbling flesh" to signify the internalized horror. Taking two films, the 1958 The Fly and its 1986 remake, and treating them as (paranoid) fantasies, the author explores what he takes to be the unconscious meanings of these changes. Although both films present oedipal as well as preoedipal conflicts, and although both employ paranoid mechanisms of negation and projection of an unacceptable wish, the earlier film also makes greater use of repression to keep the preoedipal wishes farther from consciousness. The earlier film is also more successful in its projection: In the later film the projective mechanisms fail and the projected returns to its original locus. The particular unacceptable wish is a radically passive wish for merger with the mother, a merger wish so radical that it can be seen in terms of H. Guntrip's (1969) "return to the womb" wishes, and so passive that it can be seen as a nearly pure form of Freud's death drive. The differences between the 2 films are associated with societal changes in the past decades, and especially with traditionally conceived gender role changes." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)

Bishop, Kyle
"Raising the Dead." Journal of Popular Film and Television v. 33 no. 4 (Winter 2006) p. 196-205
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"Traditional zombie movies have no direct antecedent in the written word because of the monsters' essentially visual nature; zombies don't think or speak--they simply act. This unique embodiment of horror recalls Sigmund Freud's concept of the uncanny, which finds itself he Her suited to filmic representations rat her than prose renditions." [Art Index]

"Body horror." Screen; Vol.XXVII nr.1 (Jan-Feb 1986); p.2-70
Series of articles discussing the contemporary horror film

Boss, P.
"Vile bodies and bad medicine." Screen; Vol.XXVII nr.1 (Jan-Feb 1986); p.2-70 p.14-24
Exploration of the images in horror films which are informed by popular attitudes to modern medicine and the body.

Bowman, James.
"Monstrosities." (filmmakers' interest in monsters) (The Talkies) (Column) American Spectator v28, n1 (Jan, 1995):60 (2 pages).
Modern filmmakers' interest with monsters in the films 'Interview with the Vampire' and 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein' and their treatment of the subject fall short of audience expectations. Social taboos are introduced in the films but disappoint because of the indirect approach to the themes.

Briefel, Aviva
"Monster Pains: Masochism, Menstruation, and Identification in the Horror Film." Film Quarterly v. 58 no. 3 (Spring 2005) p. 16-27
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"Pain is crucial to how audiences relate to the horror film, but not as a vehicle through which audiences can sympathize with the monster's victims. Rather, it is the monster's pain that dictates audience positioning in the horror film. Horror films present two contrasting modes of monstrous suffering: masochism and menstruation. These two options determine audience identification in gendered terms. Masochism is a vital aspect of the construction of male monsters, who initiate their sadistic rampages with acts of self-mutilation. The female counterpart to the act of self-mutilation is menstruation, a narrative event that puts the viewer in an uncomfortably close relationship to the female monster. These differences between the masochistic and menstrual plots of the genre expose an underlying conservatism in a potentially radical genre." [Art Index]

Brintnall K.
"Re-building Sodom and Gomorrah: the monstrosity of queer desire in the horror film." Culture and Religion, Volume 5, Number 2, 2004, pp. 145-160(16)
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"In Skin Shows, her study of gothic horror, Judith Halberstam argues that '[m]onsters are meaning machines'. Narratives about monsters create meaning by defining the border between normal and monstrous desire. This essay offers a close reading of horror films from three very different periods of the genre's history-- Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Haunting, and Scream--to demonstrate how these films represent queer desire as monstrous, disruptive and violent. Reading these cinematic representations alongside Christian discourses of sodomy demonstrates that the study of religion and the study of popular culture can inform each other, that theological meaning can be found in the artifacts of popular culture and that these artefacts can only be fully understood by attending to their theological meanings. The essay concludes with suggestions regarding how such artifacts can be engaged to support queer political projects." [Ingenta]

Brophy, Philip
"Horrality - the textuality of contemporary horror films." Screen; Vol.XXVII nr.1 (Jan-Feb 1986); p.2-13
Introduction to certain characteristics of the contemporary horror film, the textuality of which is termed 'horrality'.

Brottman, Mikita.
"Ritual, tension and relief: the terror of 'The Tingler.'" (horror films of director William Castle) Film Quarterly v50, n4 (Summer, 1997):2 (9 pages).
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Between 1958 and 1962, Castle became famous for the stunts he used to promote his low-budget horror films. They included insurance against causing 'death by fright,' glasses that caused the viewers to see 'ghosts' and electrical charges wired into theater seats. His classic 'The Tingler' is analysed.

Cameron-Wilson, James
"The Horror...the Horror: "Film Review" Explains Why Horror Movies Make for Lovely." Film Review:588 [December 1999] p.88
"Comments on the current popularity of horror films, citing the success of "The Sixth Sense," "The Blair Witch Project," "The Haunting" and "Stigmata." Recalls some early horror pictures, such as the 1916 d?but of Frankenstein in a 16-minute short, and the 1913 work "The Werewolf." Asserts that "The Exorcist" was a peak for the genre in 1972, as were the films featuring Freddy Krueger, Jason, and Michael Myers, and that horror was brought back to the limelight by the pop-cultural spin on its formula: "Scream." Contends that aside from "Scream" the formula seems to remain the same, offering "photogenic kids being knocked off by maniacs accompanied by loud music and endless false alarms." [International Index to the Performing Arts]

Campbell, Ramsey.
"Hacked to bits." (experiences of Ramsey Campbell, horror story writer for motion pictures) Sight and Sound v4, n1 (Jan, 1994):35 (1 page).
Script writer Ramsey Campbell describes his interest in reading horror stories during his early years and his eventual reproduction of such stories as scripts for feature films. Films such as 'Dracula,' 'Frankenstein' and 'Revenge of the Vampire' fascinated Campbell. The difficulties involved in making these films are described.

Cantor, Joanne
"'I'll Never Have a Clown in My House': Why Movie Horror Lives On." Poetics Today, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 283-304, Summer 2004
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Caputi, Jane.
"The New Founding Fathers: The Lore And Lure Of The Serial Killer In Contemporary Culture." Journal of American Culture 1990 13(3): 1-12.
"Considers the obsession with serial murderers in recent American popular culture, including the continuing mythologizing of the English killer Jack the Ripper, the celebration and condemnation of mass murderer Ted Bundy, the stories associated with the "Son of Sam" killer David Berkowitz, and the success of such horror films as "Nightmare on Elm Street."" [America: History and Life]

Carroll, Noel.
"Horror and Humor." Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism. 57(2):145-60. 1999 Spring
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Carroll, Noel.
"The Nature of Horror." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 46, No. 1. (Autumn, 1987), pp. 51-59.
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Carroll, Noel.
"Nightmare and the Horror Film: The Symbolic Biology of Fantastic Beings." Film Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 3. (Spring, 1981), pp. 16-25.
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Collins, Michael J.
"Medicine, Surrealism, Lust, Anger, and Death: Three Early Films by David Cronenberg." Post-Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, Winter-Spring, 15:2, 62-69, 1996

Cooper, B. Lee.
"Terror translated into comedy: the popular music metamorphosis of film and television horror, 1956-1991." Journal of American Culture v20, n3 (Fall, 1997):31 (12 pages).
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"American youth culture saw the rise of horror films with classic monsters during the late 1950s. Popular adaptations of Gothic fiction by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Edgar Allen Poe were reflective of adolescent interests and opinions. However, change did occur from terror to comedy with Rock 'n' roll music and its lyrics that resulted in youthful adaptation of horror themes. To adult listeners, these songs were silly and nonsense in nature." [Magazine Index]

Craig, J. Robert
"Howling at the Moon: The Origin Story in Werewolf Cinema." Popular Culture Review, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 31-39, Winter 2006

Craig, J. Robert
"The Origin Story in Werewolf Cinema of the 1930s and '40s." Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 75-86, Spring 2005

Creed, Barbara
"From here to modernity: feminism and postmodernism." Screen; Vol.XXVIII nr.2 (Spring 1987); p.47-67
Comparison of the work of Alice Jardine and Craig Owens on the connections between feminism and postmodernism. Relates these ideas to Sci-fi horror films, the nostalgia film, and 'the search for the mother'.

Derdeyn, Andre; Strayhorn, Joseph M.
"Resolved: horror films are good for children." (includes responses) Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry v31, n1 (Jan, 1992):165 (5 pages).

Diski, Jenny
"A horrified lidless stare." Sight & Sound; Vol.II nr.6 (Oct 1992); p.35
J.D. writes about the fascination of monsters in horror films.

Don Diego, Catherine
"Hits, whacks, and smokes: The celluloid Gangster as horror icon." Post Script, Summer 2002 v21 i3 p87(13)
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"Maintaining that some of the most terrifying realist horror offerings in cinema can be found in gangster movies, Don Diego suggests that the the iconic film gangster be included among the established American horror icons. Drawing on the example of Brian DePlama's 1983 version of "Scarface" and several other gangster films, Don Diego notes that their combination of suspence, horror, and mayhem that surpass many traditional horror films. She traces the use of stylized scenes of carnage in such films and dicusses the shared elements of the two genres. Similarities with horror can be seen in gangster films' use of violence, the horrific nature of mob activities, the portrayal of gangsters as subhuman, and audience's morbid fascination with the genre." [IIPA]

Doran, Ann.
"John Waters on David Cronenberg." (discussion of Cronenberg film "Shivers")(Paranoia)(Interview) Grand Street v15, n4 (Spring, 1997):58 (4 pages).

Evans, Walter.
"Monster Movies: A Sexual Theory." Journal of Popular Film 1973 2(4): 253-265.
Describes the continued public interest in the horror films of the 1930's-40's, arguing that their power is related to the sexual traumas of adolescence.

Evans, Walter.
"Monster Movies And Rites Of Initiation." Journal of Popular Film 1975 4(2): 124-142.
Argues that horror films are metaphorical initiation rites for adolescents, which explains their enduring popularity.

Firsching, Robert
"Italian Horror of the Seventies." Images
Robert Firsching examines Italian horror of the seventies and discusses Deep Red, Twitch of the Death Nerve, Zombie, and several others.

"Frightful films spook fraidy cats." (psychological effects of scary films) USA Today (Magazine) v123, n2590 (July, 1994):11 (1 page).
Research indicates that women and people whose emotions are easily aroused are most likely to be affected by scary films and television programs. Arousable people have longer fright reactions and more physiological responses.

Gateward, Frances (ed.)
"Scared of the Dark: Race, Gender and the 'Horror Film'." Genders, vol. 40, pp. (no pagination), 2004

Gaut, Berys.
"The enjoyment theory of horror: a response to Carroll." British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 35, p.67, Jan. 1995) British Journal of Aesthetics v35, n3 (July, 1995):284 (6 pages).
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"Horror films are not very enjoyable if the viewer believes that the fictions are only fictions and, thus, the monsters are not quite as frightening as they should be. These films present very little to reward the viewer's curiosity except for presenting grotesque figures, since most of the plots of these films are simple and oftentimes predictable. Perhaps one of the few ways to enjoy horror films is to allow them to recreate negative emotions of fear that are sometimes experienced in life." [Magazine Index]

Gelman, David.
"What's so bad about a little trauma." (children and scare movies) News