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" Fear without frontiers : "
edited by Steven Jay Schneider.
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BL
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982651
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b737021
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| Title & Author
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Fear without frontiers : : horror cinema across the globe /\ edited by Steven Jay Schneider.
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| Publication Statement
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Godalming, England :: FAB,, 2003.
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319 pages :: illustrations (some color) ;; 25 cm
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1903254159
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: 9781903254158
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Madmen, visionaries and freaks: the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky / Pam Keesey -- Coffin Joe and José Mojica Marins: strange men for strange times / André Barcinski -- Return of the phantom: Maxu Weibang's Midnight Song / David Robinson -- Enfant terrible: the terrorful, wonderful world of Anthony Wong / Lisa Oldham Stokes & Michael Hoover -- The rain beneath the earth: an interview with Nonzee Nimibutr / Mitch Davis -- Cinema of the doomed: the tragic horror of Paul Naschy / Todd Tjersland -- Sex and death, Cuban style: the dark vision of Jorge Molina / Ruth Goldberg; followed by an interview with the director, "Testing Molina," by Steven Jay Schneider -- Fantasmas de cine Mexicano: the 1930s horror film cycle of Mexico / Gary D. Rhodes -- The cosmic mill of Wolfgang Preiss: Giorgio Ferroni's Mill of the Stone Women / David Del Valle -- The "lost" horror film series: the Edgar Wallace krimis / Ken Hanke -- The exotic pontianaks / Jan Uhde & Yvonne Uhde -- Playing with genre: defining the Italian giallo / Gary Needham -- The Italian zombie film: from derivation to invention / Donato Totaro -- Austrian psycho killers & home invaders: the horror-thrillers Angst & Funny Games / Jürgen Felix & Marcus Stiglegger -- Coming of age: the South Korean horror film / Art Black -- Between appropriation and innovation: Turkish horror cinema / Kay Özkaracalar -- Witches, spells and politics: the horror films of Indonesia / Stephen Gladwin -- The unreliable narrator: subversive storytelling in Polish horror cinema / Nathaniel Thompson -- The beast from Bollywood: a history of the Indian horror film / Pete Tombs -- In a climate of terror: the Filipino monster movie / Mauro Feria Tumbocon, Jr. -- French revolution: the secret history of Gallic horror movies / David Kalat -- Pain threshold: the cinema of Takashi Miike / Rob Daniel & Dave Wood: followed by an interview with the director, "When cynicism becomes art," by Julien Fonfrède -- The Japanese horror film series: Ring and Eko Eko Azarak / Ramie Tateishi -- The urban techno-alienation of Sion Sono's Suicide Club / Travis Crawford.
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"Horror movies have always found receptive audiences in their home countries. Finally, the genre's most colourful and least familiar directors and stars are given their due in this wide-ranging collection of articles and interviews from a fine assembly of renowned world horror experts. sDiscover such hidden treasures of world cinematic horror as Singapore's pontianak cycle, 1930s Mexican vampire movies, Austrian serial killer flicks, Germany's Edgar Wallace krimis, Bollywood ghost stories, Indonesia's penanggalan tales, the Chinese take on Phantom of the Opera, and the Turkish versions of Dracula and The Exorcist. s24 pulse-pounding chapters with selected filmographies and scores of images from the movies under discussion, including a stunning 16-page full-colour section! Book jacket."--Jacket.
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Horror films-- History and criticism.
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Horror films.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43/6164
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PN1995.9.H6F43 2003
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Schneider, Steven Jay,1974-
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