A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Horror Films
Aldana Reyes, Xavier. Body Gothic: Corporal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film. Cardiff: U of Wales P, 2014.
Azcona Montoliu, María del Mar. "From the 1980s Until Now: The Persistence of Slasher Movies." In Memory, Imagination and Desire in Contemporary Anglo-American Literature and Film. Ed. Constanza del Río-Álvaro and Luis Miguel García-Mainar. Heidelberg: Winter, 2004. 211-19.*
Berenstein, Rhona J. "Spectatorship as Drag: The Act of Viewing and Classic Horror Cinema." In Viewing Positions. Ed. Linda Williams. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1995. 231-70.*
Briefel, Aviva. "What Some Ghosts Don't Know: Spectral Incognizance and the Horror Film." Narrative 17.1 (Jan. 2009): 95-110.*
Brosnan, John. The Horror People. London: Macdonald and Jand, 1976.
Caraher, Brian. "Conclusion/Epilogue: Melodramas of Horror: On Contemporary Fiction and Film." In Caraher, Trespassing Tragedy: Melodramas of Horror. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.
Carroll, Noël. "Nightmare and the Horror Film." Film Quarterly 34.3 (1981): 16-25.
_____. The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart. New York: Routledge, 1990.
Clemens, Valdine. "Alien and the Future of Gothic." In Clemens,The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Horror from The Castle of Otranto to Alien. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999. 213-18.*
Clover, Carol J. "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film." In Fantasy and the Cinema. Ed. James Donald. London: BFI, 1989.
_____. "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film." In Gender, Language, and Myth. Ed. Glenwood Irons. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1992. 252-302.*
_____. "The Eye of Horror." In Viewing Positions. Ed. Linda Williams. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1995. 184-230.*
Dadoun, Roger. "Fetishism in the Horror Film." In Fantasy and the Cinema. Ed. James Donald. London: BFI, 1989.
Davis, Hank, and Andrea Javor. "Religion, Death, and Horror Movies." Evolution and Cognition 10 (2004): 1-8.
Deleyto, Celestino. "Masochism and Representation in Modern Horror: The Case of Alien 3." Atlantis 18 (June-Dec.1996 [issued 1998]): 62-73.*
Dickstein, Morris. 'The Aesthetics of Fright." In Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film. Ed. Barry Keith Grant. Metuchen (NJ): Scarecrow, 1984.
Dika, Vera. "The Stalker Film, 1978-81." In American Horrors: Essays on the Modern American Horror Film. Ed. Gregory A. Waller. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1987.
Eisner, L. The Haunted Screen. London: Secker, 1973.
Evans, Walter. "Monster Movies: A Sexual Theory." In Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film. Ed. Barry Keith Grant. Metuchen (NJ): Scarecrow, 1984.
Everman, Welch. Cult Horror Films. New York: Carol-Citadel Press.
Freeland, Cynthia. "Ordinary Horror on Reality TV." In Narrative across Media: The Languages of Storytelling. Ed. Marie-Laure Ryan. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2004. 244-66.*
French, Sean. "The Heart of the Cavern." Sight and Sound 56.2 (1987): 101-4.
Gelder, Ken. "Vampires and Cinema: From Nosferatu to Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'." In Gelder, Reading the Vampire. London: Routledge, 1994. 86-107.*
Giles, Dennis. "Conditions of Pleasure in Horror Cinema." In Grant 1984.
Gomery, Douglas. "The Economics of the Horror Film." In Horror Films. Ed. James B. Weaver, III, and Ron Tamborini. Mahwah (NJ): Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996. 49-62.
Grant, Barry Keith, ed. Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film. Metuchen (NJ): Scarecrow, 1984.
Halberstam, Judith. Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. Durham (NC): Duke UP, 1995..*
Huss, Roy, and T. J. Ross, eds. Focus on the Horror Film. Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Prentice, 1972.
Jancovich, Mark. "The Emergence of the Horror Film." In Jankovich, Horror. London: Batsford, 1992. 53-61.*
Johnson, Tom. "Los monstruos de la Hammer." In El nuevo Frankenstein de DeNiro. Barcelona: Ediciones Zinco, 1994. 32-41.
Kendrick, Walter M. The Thrill of Fear: 250 Years of Scary Entertainment. New York: Grove Weidenfield, 1991.
Lowenstein, Adam. "Films without a Face: Shock Horror in the Cinema of Georges Franju." Cinema Journal 37.4 (Summer 1998): 37-58.*
Lowry, Edward, and Richard deCordova. "Enunciation and the Production of Horror in White Zombie." In Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film. Ed. Barry Keith Grant. Metuchen (NJ): Scarecrow, 1984.
Lukas, Scott, and John Marmysz. "1. Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films Remade." In Fear, Cultural Anxiety, and Transformation: Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films Remade. Ed. Scott A. Lukas and John Marmysz. Lexington Books, 2009. Online at Academia.*
https://www.academia.edu/37623291/
2020
_____. "Fear, Cultural Anxiety, and Transformation: Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films Remade." Online bibliography at Academia.*
https://www.academia.edu/2250092/
2019
_____, eds. Fear, Cultural Anxiety, and Transformation: Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films Remade. Lexington Books, 2009.
Luzón Aguado, Virginia. "Film Genre and Its Vicissitudes: The Case of the Psychothriller." Atlantis 24.1 (June 2002): 163-72.*
Martín Alegre, Sara. "Monstrous Business: The Alien Film Series." In Culture and Power: Business. Ed. Matilde Paredes et al. Zaragoza: Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 1999. 141-52.*
_____. Siete relatos góticos: Del papel a la pantalla. Madrid: La Barca de Caronte - Jaguar, 2006.
_____. Rev. of Body Gothic, by Xavier Aldana Reyes. Atlantis 38.1 (June 2016): 269-73.*
Martínez Lucena, Jorge. Vampiros y zombis posmodernos: La revolución de los hijos de la muerte. Gedisa, 2010.
Modleski, Tania. "The Terror of Pleasure: The Contemporary Horror Film and Postmodern Theory." 1986. In Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. 5th ed. Ed. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 691-700.*
Oliver Marroig, José A. "El hombre es un zombi para el hombre: una lectura post-11-S del fenómeno de los muertos vivientes." In La década del miedo: Dramaturgias audivisuales pos-11 de septiembre. Ed. Marta Fernández Morales. Bern: Peter Lang, 2013. 269-94.*
Prawer, S. S. Caligari's Children: The Film as Tale of Terror. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1980.
Río Álvaro, Constanza del. "Genre and Fantasy: Melodrama, Horror, and the Gothic in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991)." Atlantis 26.1 (June 2004): 61-71.*
Rockett, Will H. Devouring Whirlwind: Terror and Transcendence in the Cinema of Cruelty. London: Greenwood Pres, 1977.
Russell, Sharon. "The Witch in Film: Myth and Reality." In Grant 1984.
Schechter, Harold. "The Bloody Chamber: Terror Films, Fairy Tales, and Taboo." In Gender, Language, and Myth. Ed. Glenwood Irons. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1992. 233-51.*
Schneider, Steven J., ed. Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmare. Cambridge UP, 2004.
Sochack, Vivian. "Bringing It All Back Home: Family Economy and Generic Exchange." In American Horrors: Essays on the Modern American Horror Film. Ed. Gregory A. Waller. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1987.
Spanke, Kai. "Kampf um Kontingenz und Darstellung von Providenz im Slasherfilm." In Welt(en) erzählen: Paradigmen und Perspektiven. Ed. Christoph Bartsch and Frauke Bode. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.*
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110626117-013
2019
Tarrat, Margaret. "Monsters from the Id." In Film Genre Reader. Ed. Barry Keith Grant. Austin: U of Texas P, 1986.
Telotte, J. P. "Faith and Idolatry in the Horror Film." In Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film. Ed. Barry Keith Grant. Metuchen (NJ): Scarecrow, 1984.
Twitchell, James. Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror. New York: Oxford UP, 1985.*
Weaver, James B., III, and Ron Tamborini, eds. Horror Films. Mahwah (NJ): Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996.
Wood, Robin. "An Introduction to the American Horror Film." In American Nightmare: Essays on the Horror Film. Ed. Robin Wood and Richard Lippe. Toronto: Festival of Festivals, 1979. 7-28.
_____. "An Introduction to the American Horror Film." In Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film. Ed. Barry Keith Grant. Metuchen (NJ): Scarecrow, 1984.
_____. "Returning the Look: Eyes of a Stranger." In American Horrors: Essays on the Modern American Horror Film. Ed. Gregory A. Waller. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1987.
Wood, Robin, and Richard Lippe, eds. American Nightmare: Essays on the Horror Film. Toronto: Festival of Festivals, 1979.
Waller, Gregory A., ed. American Horrors: Essays on the Modern American Horror Film. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1987.
Blogs
Arrow in the Head.*
2011
Literature
Grahame-Smith, Seth. Cómo sobrevivir a una película de terror: Todas las enseñanzas para eludir las matanzas. Illust. Nathan Fox. 2009. Trans. Manu Berástegui. (Freak, 12). Barcelona: Alba, 2010.*
See also Gothic; Horror.
