Faber Faber | ISBN:0571199968 | File Type: PDF, 448 pages | File size: 50.Mb | Oct. 15th, 2001
Media Studies: A Cultural History of Horror Illuminating the dark side of the American century The Monster Show uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time as well as horror s function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements With penetrating analyses and revealing anecdotes David J Skal chronicles one of our most popar and pervasive modes of ctural expression He explores the disguised form in which Hollywood s ic horror movies played out the traumas of two world wars and the Depression the nightmare visions of invasion and mind control catalyzed by the Cold War the preoccupation with demon children that took hold as thalidomide birth control and abortion changed the reproductive landscape the vogue in visceral transformative special effects that paralleled the development of the plastic surgery industry the link between the AIDS epidemic and the current fascination with vampires and much more Now with a new Afterword by the author that looks at horror s popar renaissance in the last decade The Monster Show is a compsively readable thought provoking inquiry into America s obsession with the macabre
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