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Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema (Film and Culture Series) by Angela M. Smith is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema (Film and Culture Series) about?
Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most critics have interpreted such traits as symptoms of sexual repression, or as metaphors for other kinds of marginalized identities, but Angela M. Smith conducts a richer investigation into the period's social and cultural preoccupations. Presenting an altogether different reading, she finds in the nar
Who reads Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema (Film and Culture Series)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Angela M. Smith
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786613792150
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Horror, Performing Arts, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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