Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema by Angela M. Smith

Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema

Film and Culture Series

Angela M. Smith

336 pages first pub 2011 (editions) user-added

nonfiction dark medium-paced
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Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most critics have interpreted these traits as symptom...

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