Bøker av Gary D. Rhodes

One of the first academic books devoted to vampires in silent cinema.

The Birth of the American Horror Film' examines a history that begins in colonial Salem, taking an interdisciplinary approach to explore the influence of horror-themed literature, theatre and visual culture in America, and how that context established an amorphous structural foundation for films produced between 1895 and 1915.

A collection of eighteen essays on the classic drive-in horror film experience. It emphasizes the roles of the drive-in theater in the United States - and its cultural cousin, Australia. It also examines how horror operated at the drive-in, the rhetoric used in coming attraction trailers, horror film premieres at drive-ins, and double features.