Research Catalog

Title

Terrifying texts : essays on books of good and evil in horror cinema / edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Miller, Cynthia J., 1958-
• Van Riper, A. Bowdoin

Description

viii, 260 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"This collection of new essays examines nearly a century of genre horror in which on-screen texts drive and shape their narratives, sometimes unnoticed. The contributors explore familiar American films like The Night of the Demon (1957) and The Evil Dead (1981), as well as such international films as Eric Valette's Malefique (2002) and Paco Cabeza's The Appeared (2007)"--

Subjects

• Horror films
• Books in motion pictures
• Horror films > History and criticism
• Good and evil in motion pictures
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Lovecraft and his legacy. Monstrous Writing, Writing Monsters: Authoring Manuscripts, Ontological Horror and Human Agency / Michael Fuchs -- That Monstrous Book: The Necronomicon and Its Cinematic Contents / Michael E. Heyes -- Paperback Necronomicon: Occult Authorship in John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness / Murray Leeder -- The Book with a Thousand Faces: The Evolution of the Necronomicon in the Evil Dead Universe / Martin J. Auernheimer -- Books of hope and despair. The Magic Book and the Magic of Books in Murnau's Faust (1926) / Thomas Prasch -- Apocryphal Horror: Understanding Evil through Lost Books of the Bible / Jeffrey M. Tripp -- Losing Your Faith for Seeing Too Much:Ê The Anti-Bible as Indictment of American Heroism in Gregory Widen's The Prophecy / Mark Henderson -- I(dio)t Follows: The Seashell E-Book in It Follows / Learned Foote -- Perspectives on the Babadook. "The more you deny me, the stronger I get": "Mister Babadook" and the Monstrous Empowerment of Children's Culture / Jessica Balanzategui -- Mediating Trauma in Jennifer Kent's The Babadook / Michael C. Reiff -- Bad Books and Fairy Tales: Stigmatized Guardians in The Turn of the Screw and The Babadook / Austin Reide -- Diaries and scrapbooks. Dreadful Girl Diaries and the Promise of Transparent Girlhood / Karen J. Renner -- "Do not read the Latin": The Summoning Diary in Horror Film / Lisa Cunningham -- "That book lies!" Lost Texts and Hidden Horrors in The Whisperer in Darkness / A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Witches, demons, and curses. Spellbound: The Significance of Spellbooks in the Depiction of Witchcraft on Screen / Emily Brick -- Horror Comedy by the Book: Grimoire, Carnival and Heteroglossia in Kenny Ortega's Hocus Pocus (1993) / Sue Matheson -- Unraveling Julian Karswell's Runic Curse in Jacques Tourneur's Night of the Demon / Michael Furlong -- International takes. Logical Horror:ÊAxiomatic Magic and Strategic Murder in Death Note / Richard J. Leskosky -- Grotesque Adaptations: Bodies of Knowledge in Maléfique (2002) / Cynthia J. Miller -- The Appeared (2007) by Paco Cabezas: Redefining the Book of Hidden Memories and Cyclical Time / Graciela Tissera -- "No one who sees it lives to describe it": The Book of Eibon and Power of the Unseeable in Lucio Fulci's The Beyond / Philip L. Simpson

Call Number

MFL 18-6534

ISBN

• 9781476671307
• 1476671303

LCCN

• 2018030987
• 40028527990

OCLC

1050456726

Title

Terrifying texts : essays on books of good and evil in horror cinema / edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper.

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Miller, Cynthia J., 1958- editor.

Van Riper, A. Bowdoin, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40028527990

Research Call Number

MFL 18-6534