A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema: by Kendall R. Phillips, Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2018, xiii + 235 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4773-1550-7.

With I A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema i (2018), Kendall R. Phillips offers a comprehensive genealogy of American horror cinema by examining the elements of the genre during their embryonic stage through rhetorical frameworks. In Chapter Five, "Mysteries in Old D...

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Publicado en:Early Popular Visual Culture Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 203 - 207
Autor principal: Sapountzi, Ana Maria
Formato: Book Review
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd May2020
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