American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature by John T. Soister

The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films: An Historical Survey

The horror style harbors a couple of motion pictures too daring or strange to prevail with mainstream audiences, yet providing precise, startling and sometimes groundbreaking features that experience gained them a permanent following. starting with Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage in 1921, this ebook tracks the evolution and effect of underground cult horror over the resultant a long time, remaining with William Winckler’s Frankenstein vs.

The Woman in the Story: Writing Memorable Female Characters

Encouraged via girl psychology and gender concerns, this howto e-book casts a refreshingly sincere and empowering womencentric gentle on each level of the screenwriting process.

The Visceral Screen: Between the Cinemas of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg

Narrative and spectacle describe extremes of movie content material, however the oeuvres of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg face up to such categorization. as an alternative, Robert Furze argues, the defining attribute of Cassavetes and Cronenberg’ respective ways is that of “visceral” cinema—a time period that illustrates the anxiousness those filmmakers galvanize of their audiences.

The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni (Cambridge Film Classics)

The flicks of Michelangelo Antonioni presents an outline of the Italian director's lifestyles and paintings, and examines six of his most vital and intellectually not easy motion pictures. L'avventura, l. a. notte, and L'eclisse, published within the early Sixties, shape the trilogy that first introduced the director to foreign cognizance.