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

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Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema

Angela Smith

368 pages hardcover

5 editions

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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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