Anthem Impact Theatricality in the Horror Film: A Brief Study on the Dark Pleasures of Screen Artifice, (Hardcover)

As is well known, the horror film generally presents a situation where normality is threatened by a monster. From this premise, 'Theatricality in the Horror Film' argues that scary movies often create their terrifying effects stylistically and structurally through a radical break with the realism of normality in the form of monstrous theatricality.