Horror Film

RESEARCH CATALOGUE

http://www.shortoftheweek.com/category/genre/horror/

This is a website of all of the best short films. I searched the horror genre and then narrowed down the topic by

looking for supernatural themes. I will use these short films to see how the codes and conventions of contemporary

supernatural themed horror films are portrayed. This will give me more knowledge and insight for creating my own

short film.

SHORT OF THE WEEK - HORROR

Female lead

ALIEN (1979, RIDLEY SCOTT)

Group of mixed gender teenagers

Focus on different youth sub cultures and gender roles

All sub genres of horror

postmodern

CABIN IN THE WOODS (2012, DREW GODDARD)

Post modern

Describes the conventions of horror films

Focus on a group of teenagers with mixed genders

slasher

SCREAM (1996, WES CRAVEN)

BRIGHT DARKNESS: LOST ART OF THE SUPERNATURAL HORROR FILM (FILM

STUDIES)

This book covers all of the topics that I want to cover so it would be very helpful to me. It covers how supernatural horror films used to be and how they are different now with Dysons opinions on how to make them better.

MEN AND WOMEN AND CHAINSAWS

• “the definitive new paradigm for understanding not only the genre of horror but the masochistic side of the pleasures of film viewing”

• Specifically looks at woman in horror films which is good for my research.

• “a brilliant analysis of gender and its disturbances in modern horror films”

WOMEN AND FILM: A SIGHT AND SOUND READER

• Looks at classic and modern films and how the gender roles have changed over time.

• Also looks at foreign film and their obsession with gender.

• “a major contribution to a feminist understanding of film”

• More than 30 essays by distinguished critics and historians

• Talks about Alien, which is one of my focal films.

http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_monstrous_feminine.html?id=hs09AAAAIAAJ

Also covers the abject which will be interesting

THE MONSTROUS-FEMININE

ATTACK OF THE LEADING LADY

• 1930s perspective gender in horror film book

• Academic reviews that give good insight into the book

• http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=459