The BFI Companion to Horror: The British Film Institute
by British Film Institute
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages352 pages
ISBN
9780304332168
Published
1997
Description
Focusing primarily on cinema, but encompassing literature, television, radio, popular music, history and folklore the companion provides a secret history of the horror genre from its pre-cinema beginnings in the 18th cen...Focusing primarily on cinema, but encompassing literature, television, radio, popular music, history and folklore the companion provides a secret history of the horror genre from its pre-cinema beginnings in the 18th century gothic novel and the victorian ghost story through a hundred years of film, spotlighting the great artists like boris karloff and edgar allan poe as w.