The Horror Film: Home

I.Bibliographies

• Cinema and media studies (annotated bibliographies)

II. Overviews

• The A-Z of horror films
• Animal horror cinema: genre, history and criticism
• The art of horror movies: an illustrated history
• The Cambridge companion to American horror
• Classics of the horror film
• Gothic cinema
• Twentieth-century Gothic: an Edinburgh companion
• A history of horror
• Horror in silent films: a filmography, 1896-1929
• Horror films for children: fear and pleasure in American cinema
•  Italian horror cinema
• Japanese horror: critical essays on film, literature, anime, video games
• Euro horror: classic European horror cinema in contemporary American culture
• Theatricality in the horror film: a brief study on the dark pleasures of screen artifice
• Horror to the extreme: changing boundaries in Asian cinema

• Camera Obscura
• Cinema Journal
• Discourse
• Film & History
• Film History
• Film Quarterly
• Framework
• Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television
• Journal of Film and Video
• Journal of Popular Culture
• Journal of Popular Film & Television
• The Movie Image
• PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
• Projections
• Quarterly Review of Film and Video
• Screen
• The Velvet Light Trap
• Wide Angle

I. JumboSearch for Books     

 

This is a real-time search for books on Horror Films in Tufts libraries.

A few sample "fun" findings from the above search:

• Household horror: cinematic fear and the secret life of everyday objects
• Contemporary gothic and horror film: transnational perspectives
• Horror film and psychoanalysis: Freud's worst nightmare
• Educational institutions in horror film: a history of mad professors, student bodies, and final exams
• Music in the horror film: listening to fear
• Monstrous nature: environment and horror on the big screen
• It came from the closet: queer reflections on horror
• What's eating you?: food and horror on screen
• The Uncanny child in Transnational Cinema: ghosts of futurity at the turn of the twenty-first century
• New blood in contemporary cinema: women directors and the poetics of horror
• The pulse in cinema: the aesthetics of horror
• Cinematic emotion in horror films and thrillers: the aesthetic paradox of pleasurable fear
• Fairytale and gothic horror: uncanny transformations in film

Note: WorldWide Libraries (also known as WorldCat is still a better place to get a fuller picture of  books on a topic.)

III. Journal and Magazine Articles 

A. All subjects

• JSTOR
• Project Muse

B. Film Studies and Related Subjects

• In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases:
• Academic Search Premier (all subjects), America: History and Life, Communication & Mass Media, Film & Television Literature, Historical Abstracts (World history and culture), LGBTQ+ Source,  Music Literature, Women's Studies International

III. Newspapers

• Access World News (rich U.S. regional news)
• Factiva (more international coverage)
• More