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Merchants of Menace
eBook - The Business of Horror Cinema
ISBN/EAN: 9781623563943
Umbreit-Nr.: 1297557
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 280 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 10.04.2014
Auflage: 1/2014
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Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
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- Even though horror has been a key component of media output for almost a century, the genre's industrial character remains under explored and poorly understood. Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema responds to a major void in film history by shedding much-needed new light on the economic dimensions of one of the world's most enduring audiovisual forms. Given horror cuts across budgetary categories, industry sectors, national film cultures, and media, Merchants of Menace also promises to expand understandings of the economics of cinema generally. Covering 1930-present, this groundbreaking collection boasts fourteen original chapters from world-leading experts taking as their focus such diverse topics as early zombie pictures, post-WWII chillers, Civil Rights-Era marketing, Hollywood literary adaptations, Australian exploitation, "e;torture-porn"e; Auteurs, and twenty-first-century remakes.