The Monster Show

A Cultural History of Horror

David J Skal (University of Pennsylvania)

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Faber & Faber
01 October 2001

History of Art & Design Styles; Art & design styles: from c 1960; Theatre Studies; Film theory & criticism; Popular culture; Media studies

Featuring a new Afterword by the author.

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 popular and pervasive modes of cultural expression. He explores the disguised form in which Hollywood's classic 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 popular renaissance in the last decades, The Monster Show is a compulsively readable, thought-provoking inquiry into America's obsession with the macabre.

By: David J Skal (University of Pennsylvania)
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780571199969
ISBN 10: 0571199968
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 01 October 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active