Robin Wood on the Horror Film Robin Wood on the Horror Film
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies

Robin Wood on the Horror Film

Collected Essays and Reviews

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Publisher Description

Robin Wood’s writing on the horror film, published over five decades, collected in one volume.


Robin Wood—one of the foremost critics of cinema—has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-century. Wood's interest in horror spanned his entire career and was a form of popular cinema to which he devoted unwavering attention. Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews compiles over fifty years of his groundbreaking critiques.

In September 1979, Wood and Richard Lippe programmed an extensive series of horror films for the Toronto International Film Festival and edited a companion piece: The American Nightmare: Essays on the Horror Film — the first serious collection of critical writing on the horror genre. Robin Wood on the Horror Film now contains all of Wood's writings from The American Nightmare and nearly everything else he wrote over the years on horror—published in a range of journals and magazines—gathered together for the first time. It begins with the first essay Wood ever published, "Psychoanalysis of Psycho," which appeared in 1960 and already anticipated many of the ideas explored later in his touchstone book, Hitchcock's Films. The volume ends, fittingly, with, "What Lies Beneath?," written almost five decades later, an essay in which Wood reflects on the state of the horror film and criticism since the genre's renaissance in the 1970s. Wood's prose is eloquent, lucid, and convincing as he brings together his parallel interests in genre, authorship, and ideology. Deftly combining Marxist, Freudian, and feminist theory, Wood's prolonged attention to classic and contemporary horror films explains much about the genre's meanings and cultural functions.


Robin Wood on the Horror Film will be an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in horror, science fiction, and film genre.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2018
November 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
96
Pages
PUBLISHER
Wayne State University Press
SELLER
INscribe Digital
SIZE
11.2
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