British Horror Cinema

✍ Scribed by Steve Chibnall, Julian Petley

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 258
• Series: British Popular Cinema
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

British Horror Cinema investigates a wealth of horror filmmaking in Britain, from early chillers like The Ghoul and Dark Eyes of London to acknowledged classics such as Peeping Tom and The Wicker Man.

Contributors explore the contexts in which British horror films have been censored and classified, judged by their critics and consumed by their fans. Uncovering neglected modern classics like Deathline, and addressing issues such as the representation of family and women, they consider the Britishness of British horror and examine sub-genres such as the psycho-thriller and witchcraftmovies, the work of the Amicus studio, and key filmmakers including Peter Walker.

Chapters include:

• the 'Psycho Thriller'
• the British censors and horror cinema
• femininity and horror film fandom
• witchcraft and the occult in British horror
• Horrific films and 1930s British Cinema
• Peter Walker and Gothic revisionism.

Also featuring a comprehensive filmography and interviews with key directors Clive Barker and Doug Bradley, this is one resource film studies students should not be without.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 2
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
1 The return of the repressed?......Page 17
2 The British censors and horror cinema......Page 26
3 ‘A crude sort of entertainment for a crude sort of audience’......Page 39
4 Screaming for release......Page 58
5 Horrific films and 1930s British cinema......Page 74
6 Psycho-thriller, qu’est-ce que c’est?......Page 87
7 Necromancy in the UK......Page 98
8 The old dark house: the architecture of ambiguity in The Turn of the Screw and The Innocents......Page 115
9 Barbara, Julia, Carol, Myra, and Nell......Page 133
10 The Amicus house of horror......Page 147
11 A descent into the underworld: Death Line......Page 161
12 A heritage of evil......Page 172
13 On the side of the demons......Page 188
14 Dying light......Page 199
Filmography of British horror films of the sound era......Page 212
Index......Page 250