A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema by Kendall R. Phillips

A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema

Kendall R. Phillips

256 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction horror challenging dark informative slow-paced

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Horror is one of the most enduringly popular genres in cinema. The term "horror film" was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural and horrific themes have been ...

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