Bright Darkness: Lost Art of the Supernatural Horror Film (Film studies) - Softcover

Dyson, Jeremy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0304340383 ISBN 13: 9780304340385

Publisher: Continuum (formerly Cassell Academic), 1997

Synopsis

The cult sub-genre of the supernatural film has been much maligned, but, at its best, supernatural horror allows us an awe-inspiring glimpse of another world, exhibiting all the facets of the cinema's possibilities as a narrative art form. This is an exploration of the supernatural horror film, providing a detailed analysis of individual films, concentrating on the "golden age" of horror films, from the earliest Universal talkies and the B movies produced for RKO, to an in-depth examination of Robert Wise's "The Haunting", made in 1963. The book aims to illuminate the developing complexities of themes, styles and techniques, identifying their often-overlooked influence on mainstream cinema, and pointing out some surprising similarities between movies such as "Citizen Kane" and Hitchcock's "Vertigo", and some of their less celebrated genre antecedents.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum (formerly Cassell Academic)
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0304340383
• ISBN 13: 9780304340385
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224