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🎅🇪🇸Regalar un libro para navidad! "Spanish Horror Film & Television in the 21st Century," which tours works like EL ORFANATO, 30 COINS and the mighty [REC] franchise, is now in paperback. Routledge Books / Vicente Rodríguez Ortega & Rubén Romero Santos
https://www.routledge.com/Spanish-Horror-Film-and-Television-in-the-21st-Century/RodriguezOrtega-RomeroSantos/p/book/9781032280448
https://www.routledge.com/Spanish-Horror-Film-and-Television-in-the-21st-Century/RodriguezOrtega-RomeroSantos/p/book/9781032280448
Spanish Horror Film and Television in the 21st Century
This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics. It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films and TV series as well as novel approaches to key works within the history of Spanish cinema. While addressing the specificities of the Spanish landscape, this volume also situates the national cinematic output within the international arena, understanding film production and reception as continuously
The tendrils of horror grow everywhere. "Broadening the Horror Genre" has essays on horror reaching across IMAX screens, into tabletop games & YouTube channels, even into Siskel & Ebert's reviews 👎👎. From Routledge, Eds. Jamie L. McDaniel / Andrea Wood
https://www.routledge.com/Broadening-the-Horror-Genre-From-Gaming-to-Paratexts/McDaniel-Wood/p/book/9781032523217
https://www.routledge.com/Broadening-the-Horror-Genre-From-Gaming-to-Paratexts/McDaniel-Wood/p/book/9781032523217
Broadening the Horror Genre: From Gaming to Paratexts
This collection assembles a wide range of scholarship addressing the intersections, influences, and impacts of the horror genre’s proliferation across multiple forms of media. Covering film, television, websites, video games, tabletop and role-playing games, and social media, the volume highlights works from marginalized voices or from less scrutinized media. Building off one of Horror Studies’ traditional homes in film, the volume first features approaches to previously ignored innovations
How did we get from misogynist robot horror in 1975 to candy-colored comedic romp in 2004? Maya Frampton compares the feminist underpinnings of THE STEPFORD WIVES from book to film to remake at Bright Lights Film Journal. #horror
https://brightlightsfilm.com/original-vs-remake-feminism-in-the-stepford-wives-1975-2004/
https://brightlightsfilm.com/original-vs-remake-feminism-in-the-stepford-wives-1975-2004/
Text Matters No. 14 is all about Dwelling & Belonging, incl. essays on creative corpse arrangement in THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT + achieving horror by breaching human civilization in THE LIGHTHOUSE. Kamila Drapało / Maciej Morawiec. #openaccess #horror
https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/issue/view/1927
https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/issue/view/1927
Ebook prezzie! "Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film" explores films from 1920s-1950s like ORLACS HÄNDE, REBECCA, LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE, and VERTIGO in terms of "memory, traveling, and touch." Download it now! Joana Jacob Ramalho & Palgrave #openaccess
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-73628-5
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-73628-5
Scream! Scream for your lives! Michael Arnzen has a thoughtful essay on reaching ritualistic catharsis via silly horror spectacle. "Screamin' in the Rain: The Orchestration of Catharsis in William Castle's 'The Tingler'" #openaccess at What Sleeps Beneath.
https://www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/screamin-in-the-rain
https://www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/screamin-in-the-rain
Screamin’ in the Rain: The Orchestration of Catharsis in William Castle’s ‘The Tingler’
How can The Tingler —a post-atomic horror film about a lobster-like creature that manifests on your spine whenever you are afraid—possibly be compared to something as life-affirming and fancy-free as a musical? If we set aside genre and look at the form and content of both The Tingler and another
"I mean, who *isn't* gay?" Emilie Buckley talks about velvet capes, funny vamps, and the act of performing queerness in her new #openaccess piece at REDEN journal. #horror
https://doi.org/10.37536/reden.2024.6.2678
https://doi.org/10.37536/reden.2024.6.2678
Look into my eyes... John C. Stevens's new book "Altered States of Consciousness" follows the dangling watch thru films of hypnosis & mind control, incl. DRACULA, ALTERED STATES, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE BELIEVERS, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. #McFarlandBooks #horror
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/altered-states-of-consciousness-in-the-movies/
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/altered-states-of-consciousness-in-the-movies/
Two gothic/horror cinema titles are new in paperback from Edinburgh UP at stocking stuffer prices! Get Kieran Foster's investigation of unmade Hammer horrors + a guide to gothic Italy (eds. Marco Malvestio, Stefano Serafini) under $15. #horror
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hammer-goes-to-hell.html
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-italian-gothic.html
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hammer-goes-to-hell.html
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-italian-gothic.html
