Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Situating Masks and Horror Cinema

Part One: Masks, Horror and Cinema – Towards Codification

2. Masks and Horror in Literary and Performance Traditions and Early Cinema

3. Masks in Horror Film before 1970

Part Two: Horror Film Masks from 1970 – Case Studies

4. Skin Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation

5. Blank Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation

6. Animal Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation

7. Repurposed Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation

Part Three: Masks as Transformational Technologies – Moving Forward by Looking Back

8. Technological Masks: Ritual, Power and Transformation

Conclusion

Endnotes

Bibliography