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Jon Towlson
This book argues that a succession of filmmakers working in horror have used the genre to challenge the status quo. Spanning the decades from the 1930s onwards this critical text…
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Taking a fresh look at the horror genre from 1931 to 1936, this critical study examines happy ending horror in relation to industry practices and censorship. Early works like Murders…
Arguably, excess is at the heart of Dawn of the Dead, integral to its meaning: not only in its scenes of gore, its in-your-face social satire and its gaudy pop-kitsch…
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This book explores intensity of emotion and childlike wonder in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Jon Towlson also examines the film’s production history, analyzes Spielberg’s realization of…
Jon Towlson considers how Candyman might be read both as a return of the repressed and as an example of nineties neoconservative horror. He traces the film’s origins as a…
Filmmakers in countries as diverse as the USA, Australia, Israel, Spain, France, Great Britain, Iran, and South Korea are using the horror genre to address the emerging fears and anxieties…
An iconic and controversial film, Midnight Cowboy is given its due as a classic of queer cinema. By shifting the perspective away from interpretations of Midnight Cowboy as homophobic, Jon…
