The Horror Film

Introduction: The Dark Genre and Its Paradoxes 1(14) Stephen Prince THE SILENT AND CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD ERAS Shadow-Souls and Strange Adventures: Horror and the Supernatural in European Silent Film 15(25) Casper Tybjerg Before Sound: Universal, Silent Cinema, and the Last of the Horror-Spectaculars 40(18) Ian Conrich Children of the Night 58(12) Carlos Clarens The Horrors of War 70(15) David J. Skal THE MODERN ERA Postmodern Elements of the Contemporary Horror Film 85(33) Isabel Cristina Pinedo Dread, Taboo, and The Thing: Toward a Social Theory of the Horror Film 118(13) Stephen Prince Toward an Aesthetics of Cinematic Horror 131(19) Steven Jay Schneider Scraping Bottom: Splatter and the Herschell Gordon Lewis Oeuvre 150(17) Jonathan Crane Mondo Horror: Carnivalizing the Taboo 167(22) Mikita Brottman Horror and Art-Dread 189(17) Cynthia Freeland Horror and the Holocaust: Genre Elements in Schindler's List and Psycho 206(18) Caroline J.S. Picart and David A. Frank Developmental Differences in Responses to Horror 224(18) Joanne Cantor and Mary Beth Oliver The Appeal of Horror and Suspense 242(19) Mary Beth Oliver and Meghan Sanders Contributors 261(4) Index 265