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Silver, Alain

 
9780879102975: Horror Film Reader (Softcover)

Synopsis

This book begins with seminal essays, several dating back to the 1950s, that uncover the roots of the genre and explain its wide-radning, indestructible appeal. The second part of the book, "New Perspectives", focuses on such specific films as Freaks, The Devil Doll, The Haunting, The Devil and Daniel Webster, and Hitchcock, the Wolf Man and the Candy Man.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alain Silver (Los Angeles, CA) has written and edited over 30 books, including The Samurai Film and James Wong Howe: The Camera Eye. His articles have appeared in Film Comment, Movie (UK'), 'Wide Angle, Literature/Film Quarterly, and Photon, along with numerous anthologies and online magazines. His filmed screenplays include White Nights (from Dostoyevsky'), 'the Showtime feature Time at the Top, Nightcomer (which he also directed'), 'and Sacred Blood. He has also produced more than two dozen independent features and 40 soundtrack albums.

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