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010 _a 2013048638
020 _a9781623568795 (HB : alk. paper)
020 _a9781623564209 (PB : alk. paper)
020 _z9781623569853 (ePub)
020 _z9781623563943 (ePDF)
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042 _apcc
050 0 0 _aPN1995.9.H6
_bM48 2014
082 0 0 _a791.43/6164
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245 0 0 _aMerchants of menace :
_bthe business of horror cinema /
_cedited by Richard Nowell.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bBloomsbury, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc,
_c2014.
300 _axiv, 264 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aProduction lines, trends, and cycles. "House of horrors": corporate strategy at Universal Pictures in the 1930s / Kyle Edwards -- The undead of Hollywood and poverty row: the influence of studio-era industrial patterns on zombie film production, 1932-46 / Todd K. Platts -- By the book: American horror cinema and horror literature of the late 1960s and 1970s / Peter Hutchings -- Risen from the vaults: recent horror film remakes and the American film industry / Kevin Heffernan -- Monster factory: international dynamics of the Australian horror movie industry / Mark David Ryan -- Film content, style, and themes. "Bad medicine": the psychiatric profession's interventions into the business of postwar horror / Tim Snelson -- Horror film atmosphere as anti-narrative (and vice versa) / Robert Spadoni --"A kind of Bacall quality?: Jamie Lee Curtis, stardom, and gentrifying non-Hollywood horror / Richard Nowell -- "New decade, new rules": rebooting the scream franchise in the digital age / Valerie Wee -- Movie marketing, branding, and distribution. "Hot profits out of cold shivers!": horror, the first run market, and the Hollywood studios, 1938-42 / Mark Jancovich -- Strange enjoyments: the marketing and reception of horror in the civil rights era black press / Mikal J. Gaines -- Bids for distinction: the critical-industrial function of the horror auteur / Joe Tompkins -- Low budgets, no budgets, and digital-video nasties: recent British horror and informal distribution / Johnny Walker -- Hammer 2.0: legacy, modernization, and hammer horror as a heritage brand / Matt Hills.
650 0 _aHorror films
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aHorror films
_xProduction and direction.
650 0 _aHorror films
_xMarketing.
700 1 _aNowell, Richard,
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