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This 11 page paper discusses how the horror film genre has changed over the years. Representations of male and female roles as well as censorship issues are detailed. Comparisons are made between the classic movie, The Old Dark House and The House on Haunted Hill. Examples are given from American television to show the advent of a marked presence of horror shows on primetime. Various types of horror films are given with a brief description of the subcategories. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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all death and dying has a predictable outcome does it not? What could be new and inventive about scaring the pants off of audiences world wide? However, for the serious
film student, the topic is one that bears merit. Though the horror industry still struggles for recognition in comparison to other genres, it can be said that the horror film
not only serves many purposes that the other genres cannot, but that it, too, is an evolved form of film art. Many mistakenly believe that the first horror flick was
the Frankenstein movie by James Whale, however, the first horror film titled, Manoir du Diable (1896) is generally given the credit(OShea 2002). Der Golem, which was released in 1913, is
generally credited with being the forerunner to the monster movies during the thirties(OShea 2002). But it was the release of The Cabinet of Dr. Calgari that launched horror films into
the mainstream. It is thought that German filmmakers, seeking to expose the cruelty and the diabolical ways of the up and coming political machines during their day, thought of depicting
the villains as monsters in their films. "Screenwriters Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz saw a Germany being destroyed by Prussian authoritarianism, the general populace being moulded into a collection of
mindless conformists, and sought to sound a warning through the medium of film (Caligari, in the figure of the mad doctor compelling the unsophisticated Cesare to do his bidding, predicted
the rise of Hitler),"says OShea in his History of Horror. "But this theme was lost on most, who instead marveled at the brilliantly-conceived sets, all odd angles and painted shadows,
created by artists Walter Reiman, Walter Rohrig, and Hermann Warm, who spearheaded the rise of German Expressionism in the years after World War One"(OShea 2002). This theme of going against
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