Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema Hardcover – November 8, 2016

Great companion book to American Gothic , the author really knows his stuff . Book was purchased as used from seller , book was listed as very good and when I opened the box and removed packing , I was floored because I think seller lied ...the book should have been listed as excellent or maybe even brand new and I even got it less than cover price excellent job

Esteemed genre scholar Jonathan Rigby offers another exhaustive, compelling film history — this time of the Continental tradition of horror films. A fine companion to ENGLISH GOTHIC and AMERICAN GOTHIC. Exquisitely written.

I've purchased probably 10 books recently on horror movies I'd say this is the best one even though I haven't read it yet it is jampacked with different movies a lot I've never seen before the small print really contributes to the volume here! The only problem with the book is the author uses words which I personally don't understand to make him look smart but yet your typical reader will not understand therefore it adds nothing to what is actually understood but only puts the author in a quasi brilliant pedestal while leaving the reader lost when simple or more common words would've helped to understand his message more clearly A common problem with many books. Nobody wants to break out the thesaurus to read a book and nor should an author break one out to throw curveballs in to the mix. Nobody I know speaks this way so why put it in a book? I could write more but like I say I haven't read it yet sorry for the run-on sentence I'm speaking into my iPad, not typing.

Wonderful book.I enjoy Rigbys books for the knowledge of old horrors he possesses.I have found out about movies I never heard of before.

Incredibly in-depth, this is a textbook!!

Outstanding work.

Another fine reference book by Rigby. He picks films that represent gothic European movies and he does a really neat job on the subject. I don't always agree with his take on some movies but I am surprised by how many I do agree totally with.

Primarily inspired by the 2012 BBC documentary Horror Europa he created in partnership with Mark Gatiss, Jonathan Rigby’s latest tome Euro Gothic is yet another worthy, weighty landmark in the field of horror movie literature; long-awaited by the writer’s fans, this excellent work will only strengthen Rigby’s reputation as one of the top authorities on the subject.Keeping to the same format as his two previous volumes English Gothic (first published in 2000) and American Gothic (2007), this is again a highly detailed, expertly researched and endlessly readable overview of a wildly diverse and complex field. As the title suggests (and as is clear from the chunky nature of the volume), here Rigby attempts to cover in as much detail as possible the history of fright films within European cinema from the earliest days of the artform onwards (though, inevitably, the period looked at in the most depth is the international genre boom of the mid-1950s through to the late 1970s); the horror movie outputs of France, Spain, Germany and Italy form the bulk of the book, though notable efforts from elsewhere on the continent are also sure to be given at least passing consideration.Not being as immediately familiar with many of the movies studied here as I was with those in Rigby’s previous works, this was a more challenging read for me (as a ‘starter for ten’ I predictably flicked to his write-up of the 1972 Peter Cushing / Christopher Lee Spanish-made cult favourite Horror Express), though I still found the book highly informative and enjoyable. My only real problem with the volume was a language-based one; whilst I fully appreciate that respect should always be paid to the movies’ creators and their countries of origin, the listing of so many flicks (both within the main body of the book and in the index) under their initial, untranslated titles was a bit of a pain, especially given that this is an English-language publication intended for sale first and foremost in the UK, the US and Canada; but then maybe I’m just a bit of a pleb.In conclusion, this is an ideal Christmas present for the discerning film buff; and judging by how quickly the updated 2015 edition of English Gothic sold out of bookstores (check out the crazy prices for a new copy currently being asked on Amazon!) I’d pick this up soon if I were you.