LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jon towlson

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  • Global Horror Cinema Today
    Jon Towlson
    The horror film is thriving worldwide. Filmmakers in countries as diverse as the USA, Australia, Israel, Spain, France, Great Britain, Iran, and South Korea are using the horror genre to address the emerging fears and anxieties of their cultures. This book investigates horror cinema around the globe with an emphasis on how the genre has developed in the past ten years. It cl...
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    57,46 €

  • The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936
    Jon Towlson
    Critics have traditionally characterized classic horror by its use of shadow and suggestion. Yet the graphic nature of early 1930s films only came to light in the home video/DVD era. Along with gangster movies and 'sex pictures,' horror films drew audiences during the Great Depression with sensational content. Exploiting a loophole in the Hays Code, which made no provision...
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    51,38 €

  • Subversive Horror Cinema
    Jon Towlson
    Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma--the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Vietnam era, post-9/11--and this critical text argues that a succession of filmmakers working in horror--from James Whale to Jen and Sylvia Soska--have used the genre, and the shock value it affords, to challenge the status quo during these times. Spanning the...
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    51,43 €