The Haunted House On Film
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The Haunted House On Film
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Author : Paul Meehan
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2019-12-06
The Haunted House On Film written by Paul Meehan and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-06 with Performing Arts categories.
A popular phenomenon since antiquity, the image of the haunted house is one that has translated elegantly into the modern medium of film. The haunted house transcends genre, appearing in mysteries, gothic romances, comedies and horror films. This book is the first comprehensive historical and critical study of themes surrounding haunted houses in film. Covering more than 100 films, it spans from the Mystery House thrillers of the silent era to the high-tech, big budget productions of the 21st Century. Included are the works of such acclaimed directors as D.W. Griffith, Robert Wise, Mario Bava, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton and Guillermo Del Toro. The book also covers the real-life "haunted house" phenomenon and movies based on paranormal case files, including those featured in films like the Conjuring series.
Dark Places
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Author : Barry Curtis
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2009-02-15
Dark Places written by Barry Curtis and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Horror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where the evil resides, whether it is a house, a graveyard or a dark forest. These mysterious spaces foment the terror at the heart of horror movies, empowering the ghastly creatures that emerge to kill and torment. With Dark Places, Barry Curtis leads us deep inside these haunted spaces to explore them – and the monstrous antagonists who dwell there. In this wide-ranging and compelling study, Curtis demonstrates how the claustrophobic interiors of haunted spaces in films connect to the ‘dark places’ of the human psyche. He examines diverse topics such as the special effects – ranging from crude to state-of-the-art – used in movies to evoke supernatural creatures; the structures, projections and architecture of horror movie sets; and ghosts as symbols of loss, amnesia, injustice and vengeance. Dark Places also examines the reconfiguration of the haunted house in film as a motel, an apartment, a road or a spaceship, and how these re-imagined spaces thematically connect to Gothic fictions. Curtis draws his examples from numerous iconic films – including Nosferatu, Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Shining – as well as lesser-known international works, which allow him to consider different cultural ideas of ‘haunting’. Japanese horror films and their Hollywood remakes – such as Ringu and The Ring, or Juon and The Grudge – come under particular scrutiny, as he explores Japanese cinema’s preoccupation with malevolent forces from the past. Whether you love the splatter of blood or prefer to hide under the couch, Dark Places cuts to the heart of why we are drawn to carnage.
Hollywood The Haunted House
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Author : Paul Mayersberg
language : en
Publisher: London : Allen Lane, Penguin P.
Release Date : 1967
Hollywood The Haunted House written by Paul Mayersberg and has been published by London : Allen Lane, Penguin P. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Cinema categories.
Haunted Homes
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Author : Dahlia Schweitzer
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-18
Haunted Homes written by Dahlia Schweitzer and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-18 with Performing Arts categories.
Haunted Homes is a short but groundbreaking study of homes in horror film and television. While haunted houses can be fun and thrilling, Hollywood horror tends to focus on haunted homes, places where the suburban American dream of safety and comfort has turned into a nightmare. From classic movies like The Old Dark House to contemporary works like Hereditary and the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House, Dahlia Schweitzer explores why haunted homes have become a prime stage for dramatizing anxieties about family, gender, race, and economic collapse. She traces how the haunted home film was intertwined with the expansion of American suburbia, but also explores works like The Witch and The Babadook, which transport the genre to different times and places. This lively and readable study reveals how and why an increasing number of films imagine that home is where the horror is. Watch a video of the author discussing the topic Haunted Homes (https://youtu.be/_irTEfvtZfQ).
From Rockaway
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Author : Jill Eisenstadt
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-04-11
From Rockaway written by Jill Eisenstadt and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-11 with Fiction categories.
Timmy and Chowderhead and Peg are lifeguards. They spend summers sitting in those tall chairs, smoking dope and staring at the waves, swatting insects, tormenting seagulls. Winters they work shit jobs like unloading trucks at Mickey's Deli. At night, winter and summer, they drink. Drink and get rowdy. Then there's Alex, the girl who gets away, not only from old boyfriend Timmy but also from "Rotaway"-on scholarship to a rich-kid's college in New England. One midsummer night when the four are reunited, tensions erupt in feats of daring and self-destruction during the wild, cathartic, near-sacred lifeguard ritual known as the Death Keg. Brilliantly capturing the restlessness and casual nihilism of working-class youth with no options, Jill Eisenstadt's acclaimed first novel startles in its power and originality, its depth of feeling, its bright and dark comic turns.
The Haunting Of Hill House
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Author : Shirley Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-10-01
The Haunting Of Hill House written by Shirley Jackson and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with Fiction categories.
The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Twelve Nights At Rotter House
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Author : J.W. Ocker
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 2019-10-29
Twelve Nights At Rotter House written by J.W. Ocker and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-29 with Fiction categories.
Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he’s carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for himself in nonfiction; he writes travelogues of the country’s most haunted places, after haunting them himself. When he convinces the owner of the infamous Rotterdam Mansion to let him stay on the premises for 13 nights, he believes he’s finally found the location that will bring him a bestseller. As with his other gigs, he sets rules for himself: no leaving the house for any reason, refrain from outside contact, and sleep during the day. When Thomas Ruth, Felix's oldest friend and fellow horror film obsessive, joins him on the project, the two dance around a recent and unspeakably painful rough-patch in their friendship, but eventually fall into their old rhythms of dark humor and movie trivia. That’s when things start going wrong: screams from upstairs, figures in the thresholds, and more than what should be in any basement. Felix realizes the book he’s writing, and his very state of mind, is tilting from nonfiction into all out horror, and the shocking climax answers a question that’s been staring these men in the face all along: In Rotter House, who’s haunting who?
Dark Dreams 2 0
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Author : Charles Derry
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2009-12-21
Dark Dreams 2 0 written by Charles Derry and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-21 with Performing Arts categories.
Greatly expanded and updated from the 1977 original, this new edition explores the evolution of the modern horror film, particularly as it reflects anxieties associated with the atomic bomb, the Cold War, 1960s violence, sexual liberation, the Reagan revolution, 9/11 and the Iraq War. It divides modern horror into three varieties (psychological, demonic and apocalyptic) and demonstrates how horror cinema represents the popular expression of everyday fears while revealing the forces that influence American ideological and political values. Directors given a close reading include Alfred Hitchcock, Brian De Palma, David Cronenberg, Guillermo Del Toro, Michael Haneke, Robert Aldrich, Mel Gibson and George A. Romero. Additional material discusses postmodern remakes, horror franchises and Asian millennial horror. This book also contains more than 950 frame grabs and a very extensive filmography.
House
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Author : Frank E. Peretti
language : en
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Release Date : 2008-08-31
House written by Frank E. Peretti and has been published by Thomas Nelson Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-31 with Fiction categories.
Two stranded couples find shelter in an inn but find themselves trapped in a game with rules setting up a life-or-death situation.
Cinematic Ghosts
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Author : Murray Leeder
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2015-07-30
Cinematic Ghosts written by Murray Leeder and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-30 with Performing Arts categories.
In 1896, Maxim Gorky declared cinema "the Kingdom of Shadows." In its silent, ashen-grey world, he saw a land of spectral, and ever since then cinema has had a special relationship with the haunted and the ghostly. Cinematic Ghosts is the first collection devoted to this subject, including fourteen new essays, dedicated to exploring the many permutations of the movies' phantoms. Cinematic Ghosts contains essays revisiting some classic ghost films within the genres of horror (The Haunting, 1963), romance (Portrait of Jennie, 1948), comedy (Beetlejuice, 1988) and the art film (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, 2010), as well as essays dealing with a number of films from around the world, from Sweden to China. Cinematic Ghosts traces the archetype of the cinematic ghost from the silent era until today, offering analyses from a range of historical, aesthetic and theoretical dimensions.