A New Heritage of Horror
The English Gothic Cinema
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 17 October 2024
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350303805
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 246x170x24 mm
- Weight 860 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 55 bw illus 604
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Winner of the Dark Fest Film Festival Award for Best Genre Author 2024
David Pirie's acclaimed history of British gothic film and television has long been regarded as a foundational study of the roots of British horror, identifying it as 'the only staple cinematic myth which Britain can properly claim as its own.'
This edition has been revised and updated to include discussion of films and TV dramas that have been newly discovered, restored or released since publication of the previous edition in 2007, as well as addressing newly-emergent screenwriters, directors and genres.
Drawing on insider accounts and archival sources, David Pirie investigates the notion of horror versus realism in popular fiction, and analyses the horror boom that developed around films including The Others and 28 Days Later. He chronicles British horror cinema from its origins in Gothic literature traces the rise of Hammer Films, its key directors and films as well as its battles with the censors, explores major horror sub genres including comedy horror and sci-fi, and brings the story up to the present day, where horror is flourishing in new ways, with films such as Shaun of the Dead, Under the Skin and Censor; the rise of genres such as folk horror and films that tackle questions of race and gender, and the emergence of a new generation of writers and directors including Prano Bailey-Bond, Ben Wheatley and Edgar Wright.
Table of Contents:
Introduction to 2023 Edition
Introduction to 2007 Edition
Introduction to First Edition
1. The Characteristics of English Gothic Literature
2. The Identification of Hammer
3. The World of Terence Fisher
4. Approaches to Frankenstein: Fisher, Francis and Sangster
5. Approaches to Dracula
6. Other Approaches to Horror
7. Three Satellite Directors
8. Science Fiction, Exoticism and Psychosis
9. A Rennaissance of Themes and Ideas?
10. Towards New Horror Mythologies
Appendix 2: Two checklists
Filmography
Select bibliography
Index
