Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic

Download or read book Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic written by Linda Badley and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1995-11-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study relates horror film to recent interpretations of the body and the self, drawing from feminist film theory, psychoanalytic theory, cultural criticism and gender studies. Applying the term horror broadly, this work includes discussions of black comedy, thrillers, science fiction, and slasher films. Central to this book is the view of horror as a modern iconography and discourse of the body. Badley's thought-provoking analysis of films by directors Tim Burton, Tobe Hooper, George Romero, Ridley Scott, Brian De Palma, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Jonathan Demme, and Clive Barker, will be of interest to both scholars and students.