Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic

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Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic is written by Linda Badley and published by Praeger. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0313275238 (ISBN 10) and 9780313275234 (ISBN 13).

This fascinating study relates horror film to recent interpretations of the body and the self, drawing from feminist film theory, psychoanalytic theory, cultural criticism and gender studies. Applying the term horror broadly, this work includes discussions of black comedy, thrillers, science fiction, and slasher films. Central to this book is the view of horror as a modern iconography and discourse of the body. Badley's thought-provoking analysis of films by directors Tim Burton, Tobe Hooper, George Romero, Ridley Scott, Brian De Palma, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Jonathan Demme, and Clive Barker, will be of interest to both scholars and students.