This volume is the first edited collection of essays focusing on European horror cinema from 1945 to the present. It features new contributions by distinguished international scholars exploring British, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Northern European and Eastern European horror cinema. The essays employ a variety of current critical methods of analysis, ranging from psychoanalysis and Deleuzean film theory to reception theory and historical analysis. The complete volume offers a major resource on post-war European horror cinema, with in-depth studies of such classic films as Seytan (Turkey, 1974), Suspiria (Italy, 1977), Switchblade Romance (France, 2003), and Taxidermia (Hungary, 2006).

About the Author
Patricia Allmer is senior research fellow in art history and theory at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; she is that author of Rene Magritte: Beyond Painting (2009). David Huxley is senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; he is the author of Nasty Tales: Sex, Drugs, and Rock n' Roll in the British Underground (2001). Emily Brick is senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; she is a contributor to Sex and Television (2012).

Reviews
An ambitious and important contribution to the study of European horror films. -- Francesco Di Chiara European Journal of Media Studies



Book Information
ISBN 9780231162067
Author Patricia Allmer
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Wallflower Press
Publisher Columbia University Press