English Gothic

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The British horror film is almost as old as cinema itself. English Gothic: A Century Of Horror Cinema is the first book to trace the rise and fall of the genre from its nineteenth century beginnings to the present day, encompassing the lost films of the silent era, the Karloff and Lugosi chillers of the 1930s, the lurid classics from Hammer's house of horror and the explicit shockers of the 1970s.

Author Jonathan Rigby applies his incisive scrutiny to a selection of 100 crucial movies from the genre's boom period (1954 to 1975) before considering more recent titles like 28 Days Later and Shaun Of The Dead. English Gothic is a compelling and revealing study that sheds new light on British cinema's most successful - and misunderstood - export.

This expanded and updated edition features a comprehensive section on television horror, a foreword by genre star Barbara Shelley, and over 230 illustrations in color and black & white.