Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema by Angela Smith

Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema

Film and Culture

Angela Smith

368 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history horror sociology dark medium-paced
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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 these traits as symptom...

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