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The article presents information on several books on motion pictures. All the books described in this article are divided into several somewhat loosely defined subject classifications: Reel-Life Baddies: Evil in Human Form; Creature Features; Filmmaking; Love, Sex, and Romance; and the final category called Some Out of the Ordinary Film Guides. The book "Slasher Films: An International Filmography, 1960 Through 2001," by Kent Byron Armstrong begins with an unusually long and very descriptive introduction that is devoted primarily to establishing the criteria the author used to define the content of a slasher film. Armstrong proposes that there are seven characteristics of such films, one of which is that the killer be either human or human-like. The book "Serial Killer Cinema: An Analytical Filmography With an Introduction," by Robert Cettl is somewhat of an anomaly since, unlike many of the other filmographies in this section, it features scholarly as well as popular critical content. Among these are the split-personality character and the peculiarities of the man who takes on the characteristics of a vampire. |
