Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture PDF
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Euro Horror New Directions in National Cinemas Jacqueline Reich, editor EUro Horror Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture ian olney Indiana University Press Bloomington & Indianapolis This book is a publication of Manufactured in the United States of America Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Library of Congress Bloomington, Indiana 47404-3797 USA Cataloging-in-Publication Data iupress.indiana.edu Olney, Ian. Euro horror : classic European Telephone orders 800-842-6796 horror cinema in contemporary Fax orders 812-855-7931 American culture / Ian Olney. p. cm. – (New directions © 2013 by Alexander Ian Olney in national cinemas) Includes bibliographical All rights reserved references and index. ISBN 978-0-253-00648-6 (cl : alk. No part of this book may be reproduced paper) – ISBN 978-0-253-00652-3 (pb : or utilized in any form or by any means, alk. paper) – ISBN 978-0-253-00658-5 electronic or mechanical, including (eb) 1. Horror films – Europe – History photocopying and recording, or by and criticism. 2. Motion picture any information storage and retrieval audiences – United States. I. Title. system, without permission in writing PN1995.9.H6O46 2013 from the publisher. The Association 791.43'6164 – dc23 of American University Presses’ 2012027225 Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. 1 2 3 4 5 18 17 16 15 14 13 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For Jill – love always This page intentionally left blank You had been set adrift in a world of European exploitation movies, unstable mixtures of poetry and gothic melodrama and outright pornography – Belgian vampires, Italian cannibals, Spanish sex murderers, hooded inquisitors from Portugal – and now there was no easy way out. Geoffrey O’Brien, The Phantom Empire This page intentionally left blank ContEnts Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Note on Film Titles xix Part 1 Toward a Performative Theory of Euro Horror Cinema 1 Academic Hot Spots and Blind Spots: Horror Film Studies and Euro Horror Cinema 3 2 Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: The Academic Case against Euro Horror Cinema 23 3 Playing Dead, Take One: Euro Horror Film Production 46 4 Playing Dead, Take Two: Euro Horror Film Reception 61 5 Return of the Repressed: Euro Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture 83
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