European Nightmares: Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945

Edited by Patricia Allmer, David Huxley, and Emily Brick

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Paper, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-16209-8
$26.00 / £18.00

May, 2012
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-16206-7
Wallflower Press
$80.00 / £55.00

This volume is the first edited collection of essays focusing on European horror cinema from 1945 to the present. It features new contributions by distinguished international scholars exploring British, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Northern European and Eastern European horror cinema. The essays employ a variety of current critical methods of analysis, ranging from psychoanalysis and Deleuzean film theory to reception theory and historical analysis. The complete volume offers a major resource on post-war European horror cinema, with in-depth studies of such classic films as Seytan (Turkey, 1974), Suspiria (Italy, 1977), Switchblade Romance (France, 2003), and Taxidermia (Hungary 2006).

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About the Author

Patricia Allmer is Senior Research Fellow in Art History and Theory at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; she is that author of René Magritte: Beyond Painting (2009).

David Huxley is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; he is the author of Nasty Tales: Sex, Drugs and Rock n' Roll in the British Underground (2001). Emily Brick is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; she is a contributor to Sex and Television (2012).

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