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- This volume is the first edited collection of essays focusing on European horror cinema from 1945 to the present.
- About the Author: Patricia Allmer is senior research fellow in art history and theory at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; she is that author of René Magritte: Beyond Painting (2009).
- 288 Pages
- Performing Arts, Film
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This volume is the first edited collection of essays focusing on European horror cinema from 1945 to the present. It features new contributions by distinguished international scholars exploring British, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Northern European and Eastern European horror cinema. The essays employ a variety of current critical methods of analysis, ranging from psychoanalysis and Deleuzean film theory to reception theory and historical analysis. The complete volume offers a major resource on post-war European horror cinema, with in-depth studies of such classic films as
Seytan (Turkey, 1974), Suspiria (Italy, 1977), Switchblade Romance (France, 2003), and Taxidermia (Hungary, 2006).
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An ambitious and important contribution to the study of European horror films.--Francesco Di Chiara "European Journal of Media Studies"
About the Author
Patricia Allmer is senior research fellow in art history and theory at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; she is that author of René Magritte: Beyond Painting (2009).
David Huxley is senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; he is the author of Nasty Tales: Sex, Drugs, and Rock n' Roll in the British Underground (2001).
Emily Brick is senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; she is a contributor to Sex and Television (2012).
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