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Since horror leapt from popular fiction to the big screen in the past due 1890s, viewers have observed dread and pleasure in superb combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's A Record of Horror is the one book to provide a comprehensive survey of the ever-popular film genre. Arranged by ages, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman and their various incarnations in film from the silent period to comedic sequels. A Record of Horror explores how the horror film meets in to the Hollywood studio room system and how its substantial success in American and Western culture expanded internationally over time. Dixon examines key durations in the horror film - in which the basic precepts of the genre were established, then banished into conveniently reliable and malleable varieties, and then, after collapsing into parody, increased again and again to make new degrees of depth and menace. A Record of Horror brings over 50 timeless horror films into frightfully clear target, zooms in on today's top horror Web sites, and champions the personalities, directors, and subgenres that produce the horror film so interesting and popular with contemporary audiences. Named an "Outstanding Academic Name" by Choice.
