Horror, The Film Reader (In Focus--Routledge Film Readers)

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Horror, The Film Reader brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to The Blair Witch Project, and outlines the main critical debates. Combining classic and recent articles, each section explores a central issue of horror film, and features an editor's introduction outlining the context of debates.

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The Horror Reader
Ken Gelder
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0415213568

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Blood-sucking vampires, serial killers, ghosts and ghouls, monsters and freaks--horror provides us with a way of imagining and classifying our world. Through 29 essays, The Horror Reader explores the questions of what is evil and what is good; what is monstrous and what is "normal"; what can be seen and what should remain hidden. Covering classic gothic literature and spanning the history of horror in literature and film, it brings together essential writings on this most spectacular and controversial of genres. The range of topics is vast-from Edgar Allan Poe to Frankenstein to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Contributors include Stephen D. Arata; Philip Brophy; Sue-Ellen Case; Terry Castle; Carol J. Clover; Joan Copjec; Barbara Creed; Teresa A. Goddu; Marie-Helene Huet; Graham Huggan; Leon Hunt; Tania Modleski; Jose Monleon; Franco Moretti; Paul O'Flinn; Fatimah Tobing Rony; Mary Russo; David Sanjek; Mark Seltzer; Elaine Showalter; Vivien Sobchack; Tzvetan Todorov; Gregory A. Waller; Patricia White; Jennifer Wicke; Elizabeth Young; Audrey Yue; and Slavoj Zizek.

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Great overview of the horror genre

Horror Film Reader
Alain Silver , and James Ursini
Manufacturer: Limelight Editions
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0879102977

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Offering a broad scope of the horror film genre, its lineage extends from the silent screen to Scream 3 and remains defiantly, frighteningly alive, making our flesh creep, our skin turn pale, and our hair stand on end.

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Great overview of the horror genre.......2002-07-16

This is a very interesting portrait of a much abused genre. The essays a quite wonderful, with the essay on Polanski's Repulsion worth the price of the book alone.

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What in contemporary cinema is a horror film and what is a science fiction movie? Blade Runner (1982) is as much film noir as science fiction, and it is a literary adaptation. The latest remake of The Mummy (1999) is more an effects fantasy or action/adventure than straightforward horror. Whatever your viewpoint, the best of these movies have generated cults and imitations and the worst have a wonderfully perverse appeal all of their own.
This new volume in the Sight and Sound readers series provides a varied and diverse overview of trends that have shaped sci-fi/horror in the last decade. It explores how recent films like The Fight Club and The Truman Show have impinged on more traditional territory and have tested the limits of conventional understandings of these most central of genres.
The book engages with a host of topics that have emerged over the last decade: vampire movies, body horror, the nuclear threat, childhood terror, artificial worlds, and postmodern horror. It includes fresh looks at classics such as Rosemary's Baby, Psycho, Halloween, Nosferatu, and Blade Runner, as well as 90s highlights the Scream series, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Strange Days Existenz, and Cube.

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Essential reading for any film buff........2002-06-10

If you can't afford or simply can't find issues of the excellent British film magazine, SIGHT AND SOUND, then this book is for you. It is essentially a compliation of reviews, articles and interviews from the magazine with the focus on science fiction and predominantly horror films.

Assembled and edited (with the occasional review written) by Kim Newman, this book is a fantastic overview of these two genres in the past decade. He traces the rise and fall of the teenage postmodern horror film (i.e. SCREAM) and even devotes a chapter to Kubrick's influence on the science fiction and horror genre.

Whether I agree or disagree with the views expressed in the book, I was always impressed by the quality of writing. S&S only publishes the best writers and shows why the British film magazines are so much better than their fluffy US equivalents (i.e. PREMIERE).

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Shines on.......2004-03-28

Although many would pick Stanley Kubrich's film (1980)over the 4hr. 20min. film, I think wouldn't. I did enjoy Stanley's yet i feel that it lacked the "pizazz" that the book and the miniseries truly held. The book was wonderful in my opinion mostly because it held some truth and horror that most books often lack. The character Jack Torrance was made to be similiar to Stephen King but different enough to where it would be easy to distinguish them. When Stephen King went up to The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, he was enspired to write the -probably most famous- book of Stephen King's. Stephen King was a recovering alcoholic and he was surprised by how he could sometimes be so angry with his children because he himself had not had a father most of his life so he thought of the character jack that was a reflection of his true self but not a mirror image. He then thought that maybe if Jack had a child with psychic abilities, and a wife similiar to his own, that maybe he would have a real thriller. So in the Stanley Hotel, Stephen King got lost in the halls and that's when the idea struck him. He then began his world wide sold book. So now if you were to go to probably any bookstore, you'd find THE SHINING and if you were to go to any movie store, you'd find both the miniseries and the movie there to rent(that is unless someone hasn't already checked it out).

EXTRA CREDIT.......2001-08-15

The Shining Reader is a collection of 15 critical essays on Stephen King's The Shining edited by Anthony Magistrale. The essays are broken down into three categories : The Shining as text (6), The Shining's literary tradition (6), and The Shining as film (3). While this might be a little much for the casual fan, it is geared more towards the hardcore King/Shining fan lurking inside some of us. When this out of print book showed up in my mailbox, I couldn't wait to finish what I was currently reading so that I could begin this one. To make things even more interesting, a copy of ABC's The Shining miniseries on VHS arrived to further engross me in all things Shining. A fan? Sure but that's who this little bit of extra credit is for. If you're like me, it was worth finding this out of print book to satisfy that guilty little literary pleasure short of reading the original book one more time.

EXTRA CREDIT.......2000-08-28

The Shining Reader is a collection of 15 critical essays on Stephen King's The Shining edited by Anthony Magistrale. The essays are broken down into three categories : The Shining as text (6), The Shining's literary tradition (6), and The Shining as film (3). While this might be a little much for the casual fan, it is geared more towards the hardcore King/Shining fan lurking inside some of us. When this out of print book showed up in my mailbox, I couldn't wait to finish what I was currently reading so that I could begin this one. To make things even more interesting, a copy of ABC's The Shining miniseries on VHS arrived to further engross me in all things Shining. A fan? Sure but that's who this little bit of Shining extra credit is for. If you're like me, it was worth finding this out of print book to satisfy that guilty little literary pleasure short of reading the original book one more time.

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Overall, a Great Collection...

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A Treasury of Country Blues Guitar Styles

Mel Bay Complete Country Blues Guitar Book/ CD set
Stefan Grossman
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback

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Delta Blues Guitar (Oak Anthology of Blues Guitar)

ASIN: 0786651261
Release Date: 1999-11-16

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Over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, Delta blues, ragtime blues, Texas blues and bottleneck styles. An extremely comprehensive blues solo collection. 2 CD's included.

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Overall, a Great Collection..........2006-01-30

The Complete Country Blues Guitar Book has tabs for a wide variety of blues styles, including Delta, Rag, Texas, and bottleneck. The one point that keeps me from rating it 5 stars is the CDs, one of which was defective. I contacted Mel Bay Publishing by e-mail, advised them of the problem, and they promptly sent me a replacement along with a nice apology. That issue aside, I am very pleased with the overall collection. Get this if blues is your thang...

Excellent.......2003-09-04

I haven't played guitar for about ten years, and got this book to get myself back into it. It's great, I can't put it down, and I'm actually learning the pieces!
Defintely recommended, but not for a complete beginner.

A Treasury of Country Blues Guitar Styles.......2003-07-29

Stefan Grossman has been the world authority on fingerstyle blues guitar for decades now, and this book is the biggest compendium of his work as an educator. He tabs out fifty-seven (fifty-seven!) songs in a variety of styles and tunings, enough to keep any student busy for a year or more.

This isn't so much a method book--though I taught myself to play country blues from it--as a large tab compendium with helpful tips about each song. Each song has at least one fully-transcribed verse. Many have intros and outros, and some are complete arrangements. Most of the book covers the alternating bass and ragtime traditions of the Memphis and Piedmont blues, but there are seven Delta tunes, and excellent seven-song chapter on Texas blues, and even a good number of bottleneck tunes. Most of the songs are old standards ("Crow Jane","Vestapol","Hard Time Killin' Floor") taken from the original recordings by artists like Reverend Gary Davis, Mance Liscomb, and Blind Blake.

The "handwritten" tab is large and easy to read--you'll never be able to go back to that tiny Hal Leonard/Guitar Player tab after this. There are lots of photos of old bluesmen as well as atmospheric old-South pictures from the Library of Congress collection. It's so attractive I keep it on my coffee table. The CDs feature Grossman playing the tabbed arrangements (and then some) as well as original Blind Lemon Jefferson tracks. They're listenable in their own right, even if you aren't learning the guitar!

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Take your playing to the next level with this comprehensive jazz-blues guitar instructional book/CD pack. With 15 hands-on lessons you will be immersed in the realm of jazz blues, learning to both improvise and comp with full-band play-along CD tracks and step-by-step instruction. The well-planned lesson style and organized design of this thorough source will have you jazzin' the blues in no time!

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DONT BUY THIS BOOK.......2007-04-30

Save your money and buy somthing descent .The book has no jazz lines in it watsoever and the songs are so easy and boring it made me cry
:( complete waste of money ,It has alot of scales and theory >But you can get that stuff for free of the net it aint nothing special ,I have bouht alot of guitar books from amazon THIS IS BY FAR THE WORST .I really dont know what the other people who reviwed this book are on but i want some!!!

Great Book.......2007-02-02

A great book on jazz blues guitar. The examples in this book sound great and are fairly easy to play. The theory explanations are very good and showing you how to break out of pentatonic patterns while being easy to understand. The accompanying CD with the book is excellent.

elevate your blues guitar.......2007-01-28

If you've soaked yourself in blues guitar and want to extend your knowledge and capability on the guitar then this book and CD combo will help you get there. It will help take you from Muddy, Freddie and John Lee ( though we still love them! ) toward the realm of Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Herb Ellis and Barney Kessell. Brilliantly conceived and organised with a fantastic CD. Add some Super Cool jazzbo blues to your axegrinding. Great fun!

Worth It's Weight in Gold.......2007-01-22

Jazzin' the Blues an excellent resource for taking the blues to the next level. Stuffed into 100 pages is an incredible amount of material that will keep you busy for a long, long time. I have a couple of other John Ganapes books and they are certainly good for the basics. However, this is my favorite because it covers more advanced topics: seventh chord structures, ii-V-I progressions, extended ii-V-I progressions, secondary dominant chords, flat-five substitution, minor blues harmony, major & minor chord substitutions, and a lot more. If you want to break out of the pentatonic box, this will propel you forward.

great stuff in this book.......2006-11-10

This book has it all, easy to understand, lots of different styles. I had never played jazz and I wanted to learn more about it. this book went way beyond my expectations.The book has the accompaniment and the solo part to all the tunes ( lot of them ) in the book. I think if you take this book one step at a time ,soon you'll be able to jam with anybody.

Beginning Blues Guitar (Book & DVD) (Complete Blues Guitar Method)

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Everyone can learn blues guitar well!

Beginning Blues Guitar (Book & DVD) (Complete Blues Guitar Method)
David Hamburger
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0739024043

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Here's a comprehensive, step-by-step method for guitar that's dedicated to teaching the style and substance of the blues! Perfect for beginning blues and rock/blues guitarists, it covers basic blues theory and left-hand techniques, call-and-response phrasing, intros, turnarounds, endings, and improvisation, and styles like Texas swing, slow blues and minor blues. Also includes licks in the styles of Buddy Waters, Buddy Guy and other blues greats. All music is shown in standard music notation and TAB, and the Enhanced CD demonstrates the examples in the book. 96 pages.

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Everyone can learn blues guitar well!.......2006-03-27

I give this instruction set five stars because it's worth of!
From fundamental to higher level, it really reveals a best way to instruct people to learn Blues Guitars!
Trust me! studying and learning hard from this book ,you will make it.

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Mel Bay Complete Blues Guitar Book
Mike Christiansen
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Pubns
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0786667982

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This book and video will take you from basic concepts in blues guitar through performance level blues solos and techniques. Chapters include: Notation and Tablature, Time Values, Strumming, Blues Techniques, The Blues Progression, Open String Power Chords, Barre Chords, Blues Turnarounds, Blues Fill-Ins, The Blues Scale/Improvising, Double Stops and Fingerpicking Blues Solos. This text is supplemented by a stereo compact disc.

Mel Bay's Complete Blues Guitar Book/CD Set

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Great For Learning The Blues

Mel Bay's Complete Blues Guitar Book/CD Set
Mike Christiansen
Manufacturer: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
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ASIN: 0786653795
Release Date: 2000-07-11

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This book will take you from basic concepts in blues guitar through performance level blues solos and techniques. Chapters include: Notation and Tablature, Time Values, Strumming, Blues Techniques, The Blues Progression, Open String Power Chords, Barre Chords, Blues Turnarounds, Blues Fill-Ins, The Blues Scale/Improvising, Double Stops and Fingerpicking Blues Solos. This text is supplemented by a stereo compact disc.

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Great For Learning The Blues.......2007-04-06

This product made learning the basics easy and fun. It's a great tool because you don't have to be able to read music to learn b/c it also has the songs and scales tabbed out for you. The cd is also a big help in figuring out beats...making sure you get the song right...and playing along. I greatly enjoyed this product.

Complete Acoustic Blues Method: Mastering Acoustic Blues Guitar (Book & CD, Guitar Method or Supplement)

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Complete Acoustic Blues Method: Mastering Acoustic Blues Guitar (Book & CD, Guitar Method or Supplement)

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ASIN: B000HAO6WQ

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The conclusion of this power-packed acoustic blues guitar method begins with a review of transposition and immediately proceeds to great acoustic blues music. It provides an in-depth and exciting exploration of fingerstyle blueswith lots of pieces in standard, open and alternate tunings. Slide guitar technique is also covered, with examples in standard and open tunings. The book takes a much closer look at pentatonic and blues scale theory and application. Modal theory is introduced, with special attention given to the Mixolydian and Dorian modes. Jazz blues, walking bass lines, popping the bass and advanced muting techniques are all covered as well. Any player, no matter how advanced, can improve their playing and learn lots of great music with this book

Step One: Play Guitar Complete. Master the Basics of Tuning, Scales, Strums, and Fingerpicking. This Is the Most Complete Guide to Playing Country, Folk, Blues, and Rock for Beginning Guitarists. Book One: The Method. Includes 3 Compact Disks.

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Step One: Play Guitar Complete. Master the Basics of Tuning, Scales, Strums, and Fingerpicking. This Is the Most Complete Guide to Playing Country, Folk, Blues, and Rock for Beginning Guitarists. Book One: The Method. Includes 3 Compact Disks.

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Complete Acoustic Blues Method: Intermediate Acoustic Blues Guitar: Book & CD

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Complete Acoustic Blues Method: Intermediate Acoustic Blues Guitar: Book & CD
Lou Manzi
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback

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The second of a three-volume series that also includes "Beginning Acoustic Blues Guitar" and "Mastering Acoustic Blues Guitar".

Complete Acoustic Blues Method: Mastering Acoustic Blues Guitar: Book & CD

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Complete Acoustic Blues Method: Mastering Acoustic Blues Guitar: Book & CD
Lou Manzi
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Complete Book of Blues Guitar Licks and Phrases

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Complete Book of Blues Guitar Licks and Phrases
Austin, Jr. Sicard
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