TY - BOOK AU - Nowell, Richard TI - Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema SN - 9789388912426 U1 - 791.43 PY - 2014/// CY - New Delhi PB - Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd. KW - Horror Films - History - Criticism N1 - Part I: Production Lines, Trends, and Cycles 1. 'House of Horrors': Corporate Strategy at Universal Pictures in the 1930s 2. The Undead of Hollywood and Poverty Row: The Influence of Studio-Era Industrial Patterns on Zombie Film Production, 1932-46 3. By the Book: American Horror Cinema and Horror Literature of the late 1960s and 1970s 4. Risen From the Vaults: Recent Horror Film Remakes and the American Film Industry 5. Monster Factory: International Dynamics of the Australian Horror Movie Industry Part II: Film Content, Style, and Themes 6. Bad Medicine': The Psychiatric Profession's Interventions into the Business of Postwar Horror 7. Horror Film Atmosphere as Anti-Narrative (and Vice Versa) 8. A Kind of Bacall Quality': Jamie Lee Curtis, Stardom, and Gentrifying Non-Hollywood Horror 9. New Decade, New Rules': Rebooting the Scream Franchise in the Digital Age Part III: Movie Marketing, Branding, and Distribution 10. Hot Profits Out of Cold Shivers!': Horror, the First Run Market, and the Hollywood Studios, 1938-42 11. Strange Enjoyments: The Marketing and Reception of Horror in the Civil Rights Era Black Press 12. Bids for Distinction: The Critical-Industrial Function of the Horror Auteur 13. Low Budgets, No Budgets, and Digital-Video Nasties: Recent British Horror and Informal Distribution 14. Hammer 2.0: Legacy, Modernization, and Hammer Horror as a Heritage Brand ER -