Bibliography: "Our Love for the Scary"

(** Denotes that the work is not in ASU's library; it is available through interlibrary loan--although the ASU computer has lied to me before: I've ordered things through loan, only to find that our library does have a copy)

I. Literature

Mary Shelley and Frankenstein:

Bloom, Harold, ed. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. New York: Chelsea House,
       1987. **

Small, Christopher. Ariel Like a Harpy: Shelley, Mary and "Frankenstein." London:
        Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1972.

Thornburg, Mary K. Patterson. The Monster in the Mirror: Gender and the
        Sentimental/Gothic Myth in "Frankenstein." Ann Arbor: U M I Research
        Press, 1987. **

Tropp, Martin. Mary Shelley's Monster. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. **

Walling, William A. Mary Shelley. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1972. **

Woolf, Leonard, ed. The Essential Frankenstein. New York: Penguin (Plume),
       1993. **

Edgar Allan Poe:

Davidson, Edward H. Poe: A Critical Study. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1966.

Levine, Stuart. Edgar Poe: Seer and Craftsman. Deland, FL: Everett/Edwards, Inc.
       1972.

Rosenheim, Shawn, and Stephen Rachman. The American Face of Edgar Allan
       Poe. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1995.

Dracula:

Bram Stoker and Dracula:

Barber, Paul. Vampires, Burial, and Death. New Haven: Yale UP, 1988. **

Woolf, Leonard, ed. The Essential Dracula. New York: Penguin (Plume), 1993. **

Kosinski:

Jerzy Kosinski and The Painted Bird:

Lilly, Paul R., Jr. Words in Search of Victims: The Achievement of Jerzy Kosinski.
       Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 1988. **

Capote:

Truman Capote and In Cold Blood:

Creeger, George R. Animals in Exile: Imagery and Theme in Capote's "In Cold
        Blood." **

Garson, Helen S. Truman Capote. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing
       Company, 1980. **

Malin, Irving, ed. Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood": A Critical Handbook. Belmont,
       CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1968. **

The Exorcist:

William Peter Blatty and The Exorcist:

Allen, Thomas B. Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism. New York:
        Doubleday, 1993. **

General:

Drake, Douglas. Horror! New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. **

Heller, Terry. An Aesthetics of the Tale of Terror. U of Illinois P, 1987.

Kerr, Howard H., and Charles L. Crow. The Occult in America: New Historical
        Perspectives. U of Illinois P, 1986.

II. Film

Boggs, Joseph M. The Art of Watching Films. 4th edition. Mountain View, CA:
        Mayfield Publishing Company, 1996.

Giannetti, Louis, and Scott Eyman. Flashback: A Brief History of Film. 2nd edition.
        Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991.

Hardy, Paul, ed. The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Horror. Woodstock, NY: The
        Overlook Press, 1994.

Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's 1996 Movie & Video Guide. New York: Signet,
        1995.

Mayne, Judith. Private Novels, Public Films. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1988.

Monaco, James. How to Read a Film: The Art, Technology, Language, History, and
        Theory of Film and Media. Oxford UP, 1981.

Skal, David J. The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror. New York: Peguin,
       1993.

Sobchack, Thomas, and Vivian C. Sobchack. An Introduction to Film. 2nd edition.
        Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1987.

Waller, Gregory A. American Horrors: Essays on the Modern American Horror Film.
        U of Illinois P, 1988.

Reserve List for Horror Seminar

Freud, Sigmund. Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

___. Civilization and Its Discontents.

___. Collected Papers.

___. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis.

Brunas, Michael. Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946.

Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis.

Erikson, Erik H. Childhood and Society.

Gelder, Ken. Reading the Vampire.

Heller, Terry. The Delights of Terror: an Aesthetics of the Tale of Terror.

Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide.

Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral
        Mind.

Jung, C. G. Two Essays on Analytical Psychology.

Lavers, Norman. Jerzy Kosinski.

Margaret L. Carter. Specter or Delusion?: The Supernatural in Gothic Fiction.

Narey, Wayne. "The Exorcist." (This includes what you've already been given;
       however, this is in a folder marked "Film Reviews" that has a number of
       example reviews--not all of them from our film list--which are meant to serve as
       both information and examples on how to do a review.  Also check the back of
       your film text for this class.)

Pagels, Elaine. The Origin of Satan.

Reed, Terry. Truman Capote.

Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism.

Skal, David J. The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror.

Spoto, Donald. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock.

The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines.

Tropp, Martin. Images of Fear: How Horror stories Helped Shape Modern Culture.

Twitchell, James B. Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror.

 

 

 

 

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