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Description

1. 204 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. Educational Institutions in Horror Film is a comprehensive history of the use of educational institutions as a setting for horror films, concentrating on what scary movies can tell us about the history of school violence. Specifically examining horror films set in high schools, colleges and universities, and summer camps, the book presents a history of the variety of ways that horror films have depicted traumatic issues experienced by American youth, including issues of bullying, hazing rituals, and other forms of school violence. It also includes an in-depth discussion of the three most famous professors in horror film₇Drs. Victor Frankenstein, Abraham Van Helsing, and Henry Jekyll. Grunzke examines how these figures embodied complex cultural attitudes about the intellectual during an era in which the expansion of higher education was increasingly luring intellectuals to conduct their research at colleges and universities.

Subject

1. Horror films > History and criticism
2. Schools in motion pictures
3. Education in motion pictures
4. Education in motion pictures
5. Horror films
6. Schools in motion pictures

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction -- Is there a doctor in the house?: the evolution of Van Helsing and Frankenstein as intellectual -- The transformation of Dr. Jekyll: the evolution of film and television portrayals of Stevenson's intellectual in the age of academe -- Student bodies: the school as locus of trauma in American horror films of the 1970s and 1980s -- Final exams and Greek tragedies: colleges and universities in American horror films of the 1970s and 1980s -- Survival training: summer camp as educational institution in slasher films of the 1980s -- Some concluding thoughts.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain