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Horror Comes Home

Essays on Hauntings, Possessions and Other Domestic Terrors in Cinema

A Bowdoin Van Riper editor Cynthia J Miller editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc

Published:30th Jun '19

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Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the monsters out—until it isn't.This collection of new essays focuses on genre horror movies in which the home is central to the narrative, whether as refuge, prison, menace or supernatural battleground. The Contributors explore the shifting role of the home as both a source and a mitigator of the terrors of this world, and the next.Well known films are covered—including PsychoGet OutInsidious: The Last Key and Winchester House—along with films produced outside the U.S. by such directors as Alejandro Amenábar (The Others), Hideo Nakata (Ringu) and Guillermo Del Toro (The Orphanage), and often overlooked classics like Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger.

ISBN: 9781476679679

Dimensions: 152mm x 229mm x 14mm

Weight: 375g

279 pages