I Was a Cold War Monster: Horror Films, Eroticism, and the Cold War Imagination

I Was a Cold War Monster: Horror Films, Eroticism, and the Cold War Imagination

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Book Description
Horror films provide a guide to many of the sociological fears of the cold war era. In an age when warning audiences of impending death was the order of the day for popular non-fiction, horror films provided an area where this fear could be lived out to its horrible conclusion. Because enemies and potential situations of horror lurked everywhere, within the home, the government, the family, and the very self, horror films could speak adequately to the invasive fears of the cold war era. I Was a Cold War Monster examines cold war anxieties as they were reflected in British and American films from the fifties through the early sixties. This study examines how cold war horror films combined anxiety over social change with the erotic in such films as Psycho, The Tingler, The Horror of Dracula, and House of Wax.

About the Author
Cyndy Hendershot is assistant professor of English at Arkansas State University. She is the author of The Animal Within: Masculinity and the Gothic (University of Michigan Press, 1998) and Paranoia, the Bomb, and 1950s Science-Fiction Films (Popular Press, 1999).

I Was a Cold War Monster: Horror Films, Eroticism, and the Cold War Imagination,Cynthia Hendershot,Popular Press,0879728507,Cinema/Film: Book,Film & Video - General,General,History and criticism,Horror films,Performing Arts,Pop Arts / Pop Culture

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