Steven Jay Schneider: Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe

Steven Jay Schneider: Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe

Publisher:  Fab Press (2003)

ISBN: 1903254159

Pages: 320|pdf|27mb

Description:

Horror movies have always found receptive audiences in their home countries. Finally, the genre's most colourful and least familiar directors and stars are given their due in editor Steven Schneider's wide-ranging collection of articles and interviews from a fine assembly of renowned world horror experts. 

Discover such hidden treasures of world cinematic horror as Singapore's pontianak cycle, 1930s Mexican vampire movies, Austrian serial killer flicks, Germany's Edgar Wallace krimis, Bollywood ghost stories, Indonesia's penanggalan tales, the Chinese take on Phantom of the Opera, and the Turkish versions of Dracula and The Exorcist. 24 pulse-pounding chapters with selected filmographies and scores of images from the movies under discussion, including a stunning 16-page full-colour section! 

Learn about the amazing horror films of: Austria, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Thailand, Mexico, The Philippines, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Turkey Meet fascinating and exotic horror filmmakers and monsters from every corner of the globe, including: Hideo Nakata, Paul Naschy, Anthony Wong, Wolfgang Preiss, Maria Menado, Sion Sono, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nonzee Nimibutr, Jean Rollin, Maxu Weibang, Gallaga & Reyes, The Ramsay Brothers, Pupi Avati, Walerian Borowczyk, José ""Coffin Joe"" Mojica Marins, Jorge Molina, Kim Ki-Young, Takashi Miike and more

Table of Contents:

PART I: ARTISTS, ACTORS, AUTEURS 

Madmen, visionaries and freaks: the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky  

Coffin Joe and José Mojica Marins: strange men for strange times  

Return of the phantom: Maxu Weibang's Midnight Song  

Enfant terrible: the terrorful, wonderful world of Anthony Wong  

The rain beneath the earth: an interview with Nonzee Nimibutr  

Cinema of the doomed: the tragic horror of Paul Naschy  

Sex and death, Cuban style: the dark vision of Jorge Molina 

PART II: FILMS, SERIES, CYCLES  

Fantasmas del cine Mexicano: the 1930s horror film cycle of Mexico  

The cosmic mill of Wolfgang Preiss: Giorgio Ferroni's Mill of the Stone Women  

The ""lost"" horror film series: the Edgar Wallace krimis  

The exotic pontianaks 

Playing with genre: defining the Italian giallo  

The Italian zombie film: from derivation to invention  

Austrian psycho killers & home invaders: the horror-thrillers Angst & Funny Games 

PART III: GENRE HISTORIES AND STUDIES  

Coming of age: the South Korean horror film  

Between appropriation and innovation: Turkish horror cinema 

Witches, spells and politics: the horror films of Indonesia 

The unreliable narrator: subversive storytelling in Polish horror cinema  

The Beast from Bollywood: a history of the Indian horror film  

In a climate of terror: the Filipino monster movie 

French revolution: the secret history of Gallic horror movies 

PART IV: CASE STUDY - JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA  

Pain threshhold: the cinema of Takashi Miike  

The Japanese horror film series: Ring and Eko Eko Azarak 

The urban techno-alienation of Sion Sono's Suicide Club

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