A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
It would be salutary if writers addressing the genre would cease treating it as though it has been relevant for only the past ten or twenty years.
There is a wealth of behind-the-scenes information on offer in MCU.
Singer generally adopts the pose of the fan rather than the critic.
It's hard to fault the contributors to the volume, or the ambition of the editors.
The Black Guy Dies First reads like little more than Horror Noire for the attention-deficit crowd.
Heading into 2023, it appears that inflation, which is being felt particularly where hardcovers are concerned, has booksellers nervous about purchasing patterns over the coming months.
Cinema Speculation is a good primer on the groundbreaking cinema that influenced one of the savviest, most provocative filmmakers of his own generation.
Poole's extended argument about the dominance of American empire and the ways horror filmmakers (and, to a lesser extent, novelists) have responded to it is potent and challenging.
As a primer to the ways cinematic horror works on audiences' psyches and the specific neurological responses these techniques can elicit, Nightmare Fuel is a breezy and fluent read.
In its examination of the roots of American horror cinema, this single-volume survey is valuable, though it lacks follow-through in its second half.