Descriptions Of Monsters, Vampires, Demonic Possessions, And Psychopaths In Horror Films Have Been Inspired By Psychiatric Knowledge About Mental Illness, Leading To Several Stereotyped Models Of Horror That Have Prevailed Through Decades. Some Scholars Have Proposed That Horror Films Can Be A Teaching Tool For Psychopathology, But For The Most Part The Genre Has Been Underutilized As A Learning Tool. This Book Explores The Idea Of Relating Horror Films To Psychiatric Ideas As A Way Of Engaging People In Learning.--page 4 Of Cover. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. The Horror Before Film -- 2. Silent Horror -- 3. Vampires -- 4. Monsters -- 5. Aliens From Outer Space And The Paranoid Horror -- 6. Witchcraft And The Worship Of The Devil -- 7. Demonic Possessions -- 8. The Supernatural -- 9. Ghost Hunting And The Paranormal -- 10. Slash Killers And Psychopaths -- 11. Zombies -- 12. Body Horror -- 13. The Horror In The Asylum -- 14. Psychiatry And Horror. Fernando Espi Forcen. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 213-217) And Index.
Author: Fernando Espi Forcen
ISBN: 9781498717854
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Dimensions: 13 x 240
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