Masks in Horror Cinema

by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Masks in Horror Cinema
Author: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1786834979
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First critical exploration of the history and endurance of masks in horror cinema Written by an established , award-winning author with a strong reputation for research in both academia and horror fans Interdisciplinary study that incorporates not only horror studies and cinema studies, but also utilises performance studies, anthropology, Gothic studies, literary studies and folklore studies.

Behind the Mask of the Horror Actor

by Doug Bradley
Behind the Mask of the Horror Actor
Author: Doug Bradley
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-07-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1840238070
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Actor Doug Bradley, who portrays the terrifying character Pinhead in Clive Barker's 'Hellraiser' series of films, gives his personal guide to cinema monsters and the men who portray them, including legends Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff, and unforgettable creatures such as The Wolf Man and The Phantom of the Opera.

Found Footage Horror Films

by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Found Footage Horror Films
Author: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2014-05-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786470771
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As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies. Found Footage Horror Films explores the subgenre's stylistic, historical and thematic development. It examines the diverse prehistory beyond Man Bites Dog (1992) and Cannibal Holocaust (1980), paying attention to the safety films of the 1960s, the snuff-fictions of the 1970s, and to television reality horror hoaxes and mockumentaries during the 1980s and 1990s in particular. It underscores the importance of The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007), and considers YouTube's popular rise in sparking the subgenre's recent renaissance.

The Giallo Canvas

by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
The Giallo Canvas
Author: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2021-01-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476640769
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Beloved among cult horror devotees for its signature excesses of sex and violence, Italian giallo cinema is marked by switchblades, mysterious killers, whisky bottles and poetically overinflated titles. A growing field of English-language giallo studies has focused on aspects of production, distribution and reception. This volume explores an overlooked yet prevalent element in some of the best known gialli--an obsession with art and artists in creative production, with a particular focus on painting. The author explores the appearance and significance of art objects across the masterworks of such filmmakers as Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Umberto Lenzi, Michele Soavi, Mario Bava and his son Lamberto.

Mask of Silver

by Rosemary Jones
Mask of Silver
Author: Rosemary Jones
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1839080167
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A stunning return to Arkham Horror when a movie director shoots his silent horror masterpiece in eerie Arkham, capturing crawling nightmares instead of moving pictures, in this chilling novel of creeping dread Hollywood make-up artist and costumier, Jeany Lin, travels to Arkham to work on the new “nightmare movie” by enigmatic director Sydney Fitzmaurice. The star is her sister, Renee Love, Sydney’s collaborator and lover. Desperate to outdo the thrills and terror of Lon Chaney’s popular pictures, Sydney prepares occult-infused dream sequences for Love and her co-stars to perform. But there’s more than mere imagery at play as the cast suffer recurring nightmares, accidents, and impossible waking visions. When events take a sinister turn and people start dying on set, it’s up to Jeany to unmask the monsters before Sydney’s obsessions doom them all.

Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold

by Kevin Heffernan
Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold
Author: Kevin Heffernan
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2004-03-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780822332152
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DIVThe history of horror films and the horror film industry in the 1950s and 1960s./div

Bleeding Skull

by Annie Choi
Bleeding Skull
Author: Annie Choi
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1683961862
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A celebration of the most obscure, bizarre, and brain-busting movies ever made, this film guide features 250 in-depth reviews that have escaped the radar of people with taste and the tolerance of critics ― Goregasm! I Was a Teenage Serial Killer! Satan Claus!Die Hard Dracula! Curated by the enthusiastic minds behind BleedingSkull.com, this book gets deep into gutter-level, no-budget horror, from shot-on-VHS revelations (Eyes of the Werewolf) to forgotten outsider art hallucinations (Alien Beasts). Jam-packed with rare photographs, advertisements, and VHS sleeves (most of which have never been seen before), Bleeding Skull is an edifying, laugh-out-loud guide to the dusty inventory of the greatest video store that never existed.

Rape-Revenge Films

by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Rape-Revenge Films
Author: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2021-03-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476686491
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Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sensational, catering only to a demented, regressive demographic. This second edition, ten years after the first, continues the assessment of these films and the discourse they provoke. Included is a new chapter about women-directed rape-revenge films, a phenomenon that--revitalized since #MeToo exploded in late 2017--is a filmmaking tradition with a history that transcends a contemporary context. Featuring both famous and unknown movies, controversial and widely celebrated filmmakers, as well as rape-revenge cinema from around the world, this revised edition demonstrates that diverse and often contradictory treatments of sexual violence exist simultaneously.

1000 Women In Horror, 1895-2018 (hardback)

by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
1000 Women In Horror, 1895-2018 (hardback)
Author: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2020-07-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781629333878
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Featuring a selected filmography of over 700 feature films directed or co-directed by women, this book also features interviews with Katherine Kean, Karen Lam, Izzy Lee, Barbara Magnolfi, Marsha Mason, Donna McRae, Patrushkha Mierzwa, Hannah Neurotica, Alexandra Paul, Isabel Peppard, Cassandra 'Elvira' Peterson, Debbie Rochon and more.