Horror, The Film Reader

Mark Jancovich is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Nottingham.

• General Introduction. Part One: Theorising Horror - Introduction 1. Robin Wood , The American Nightmare: Horror in the 70s 2. Noel Caroll , Why Horror? 3. Andrew Tudor , Why Horror: The Peculiar Pleasures of a Popular Genre Part Two: Gender, Sexuality and the Horror Film - Introduction 4. Linda Williams , When the Woman Looks 5. Barbara Creed , Horror and the Monstrous Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection 6. Carol Clover , Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film 7. Harry M. Benshoff , Introduction: The Monster and the Homosexual Part Three: Producing Horrors - Introduction 8. Paul O'Flinn , Productions and Reproductions: The case of Frankenstein 9. Peter Hutchings , The Problem of Horror 10. Joan Hawkins , Sleaze Mania, Euro-trash and High Art: The Place of European Art Films in American Low Culture Part Four: Consuming Fears - Introduction 11. Rhona Berenstein , Horror for Sale: The Marketing and Reception of Classic Horror Cinema 12. Mark Jancovich , Genre and the Audience: Genre Classification and Cultural Distinctions in the Mediation of The Silence of the Lambs 13. Linda Williams , Learning to Scream 14. Brigid Cherry , Refusing to Look: Female Viewers of the Horror Film. Bibliography