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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... read more
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First Sentence edit
TOD BROWNING lay in his grave, eating malted milk balls.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction: A Sideshow in Camelot
Chapter One: Tod Browning's America
Chapter Two: "You Will Become Caligari": Monsters, Mountebanks, and Modernism
Chapter Three: Dread and Circuses
Chapter Four: The Monsters and Mr. Liveright
Chapter Five: 1931: The American Abyss
Chapter Six: Angry Villagers
Chapter Seven: "I Used to Know Your Daddy": The Horrors of War, Part Two
Chapter Eight: Drive-Ins are a Ghoul's Best Friend: Horror in the Fifties
Chapter Nine: The Graveyard Bash
Chapter Ten: It's Alive, I'm Afraid
Chapter Eleven: Scar Wars
Chapter Twelve: "Rotten Blood"
Chapter Thirteen: The Dance of Dearth
Chapter Fourteen: The Monster Millennium
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- David J. Skal (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 15, 2001
ISBN: 978-0571199969
Page Count: 448 pages
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 15, 2001
ISBN: 978-0571199969
Page Count: 448 pages
Awards edit
- Bram Stoker Award (Finalist, 1993: Nonfiction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PN1995.9.H6 S57
- Dewey: 791
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