Companion to the Horror Film

Harry M. Benshoff is Professor of Radio, TV, and Film at the University of North Texas, USA. His research interests include topics in film genre, film history, film theory, and multiculturalism. The author of several books on cinema, he is best known for work that explores sexuality in relation to the horror film, including Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (1997).  He is also co-author of Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America (2006), and America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies, Second edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2009).

• Notes on Contributors viiiPreface xiiiPart I Approaches and Contexts 11 Cognitive and Philosophical Approaches to Horror 3Aaron Smuts2 Horror and Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Primer 21Chris Dumas3 Gender and Sexuality Haunts the Horror Film 38Daniel Humphrey4 The Horror Film as Social Allegory (And How it Comes Undone) 56Christopher Sharrett5 Avenging the Body: Disability in the Horror Film 73Travis Sutton6 Horror Reception/Audiences 90Matt Hills7 A’s, B’s, Quickies, Orphans, and Nasties: Horror Films in the Context of Distribution and Exhibition 109Kevin Heffernan8 Horror and the Censors 130Julian PetleyPart II The Form of Horror 1499 Carl Dreyer’s Corpse: Horror Film Atmosphere and Narrative 151Robert Spadoni10 Horror Sound Design 168William Whittington11 Mellifluous Terror:The Discourse of Music and Horror Films 186Joe TompkinsPart III A History of the (Western) Horror Film 20512 Horror Before “The Horror Film” 207Harry M. Benshoff13 Classical Hollywood Horror 225John Edgar Browning14 Horror in the 1940s 237Mark Jancovich15 Science Fiction and Horror in the 1950s 255Steffen Hantke16 The Gothic Revival (1957–1974) 273RickWorland17 International Horror in the 1970s 292Peter Hutchings18 Slasher Films and Gore in the 1980s 310James Kendrick19 Millennial Fears: Abject Horror in a Transnational Context 329Adam Charles Hart20 Torture Porn: 21st Century Horror 345Isabel C. PinedoPart IV Selected International Horror Cinemas 36321 Spanish Horror Cinema 365Ian Olney22 The Return of the Rural Repressed: Italian Horror and the Mezzogiorno Giallo 390Xavier Mendik23 Recent Trends in Japanese Horror Cinema 406Jay McRoy24 South Korean Horror Cinema 423Daniel Martin25 Sisterhood of Terror:The Monstrous Feminine of Southeast Asian Horror Cinema 442Andrew Hock Soon NgPart V Selected Archetypes, Hybrids, and Crossovers 46126 Vampires and Transnational Horror 463Dale Hudson27 Trash Horror and the Cult of the Bad Film 483I. Q. Hunter28 “MoodyThree”: Revisiting Ken Russell’s The Devils 501Joan Hawkins29 Horror’s Otherness and Ethnographic Surrealism: The Case of The Shout 519Adam Lowenstein30 The Documentary Impulse and Reel/Real Horror 536Caroline Joan S. PicartIndex 554