Description
Book Synopsis Tracking the revitalization of the British horror film industry over the past two decades, Steven Gerrard examines the genre’s highlights, including
The Descent,
Outpost, and
The Woman in Black, while provocatively exploring how these films reflect viewers’ gravest fears about the state of the nation.
Trade Review"Steven Gerrard clearly knows his subject well and does a very good job of linking the cycles he identifies (hoodie horror, outdoors horror, and the monster within) to the contemporary British social and political context." -- Barry Keith Grant * editor of The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film *
"Gerrard's exemplary study shows how recent British horror films have revitalised the genre, building on the gothic traditions of Hammer to produce a cinema that reflects the anxieties of today." -- Robert Shail * author of Seventies British Cinema *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1
1 The Hooded Terror 27
2 The Great Outdoors 63
3 The Dead Inside, the Dead Outside,
the Stranger Within 105
Conclusion 146
Acknowledgments 155
Further Reading 157
Works Cited 159
Magazines, Films, TV Series 165
Index 171
