Merchants of menace : the business of horror cinema / edited by Richard Nowell.

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 e...

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Other Authors: Nowell, Richard (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
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505 0 |a Production 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. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
520 |a 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 ground. 
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650 0 |a Horror films  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Horror films  |x Production and direction. 
650 0 |a Horror films  |x Marketing. 
650 7 |a Business studies: general.  |2 bicssc 
650 7 |a Individual film directors, film-makers.  |2 bicssc 
650 7 |a PERFORMING ARTS  |x Reference.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Horror films  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Horror films  |x Production and direction  |2 fast 
655 7 |a Criticism, interpretation, etc.  |2 fast 
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