Monday, 9 November 2015

ED NW Group: Historical context - initial ideas

Horror cycles-
  • There is a boom and fade of horror sub-genres.
  • We can see over time the rise and fall of popularity of different horror sub-genres over time.
  • Ideas will be reintroduced and relaunched to be scary again from a older time.

Gothic horror-
  • Gothic horror was the start of horror and it was the original horror films.
  • It uses scary old creepy buildings and churches. it aso invloves the use of gargoiles and is a major sub-genre.
  • It is a important sub-genre because it is the basis of the start of all horror movies.






german expressionism-
  • German expressionism grew popular very quickly and was a branch of cinema.
  • It has the godfather of horror movies and lots of horror movies today follow the rules and guide lines used in german expressionism.
  • Paramount and MGM paid $4 million for UFA anf took over the market so films began to shift to the USA and ino hollywood.





USA horror-
  • In the 1930's universal studios where responsible for American's horror indsutry, this included the Dracula and Frankistein franchise.
  • 'Cut people'' was the first phyological film which is a very popular sub-genre today.
  • In the 1950's  the USA pulp science fiction cycle began and this was very popular with teenage audiences.






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