How did the genre arise and how did it change when television came?
Before the genre started evolving into what it is today, the method of frightening people through words and tales has been done from at least the first recorded stories. But before we continue, when spoken of horror it is not all that frightens man, but all supernatural fiction with a dark side; witches, werewolves, etc.
Folklore and religious traditions contain the roots of horror because of fictional characters, for example vampires, whom can be found in even the oldest of folklore.
But the first horror literature that can be related tot the horror we have today can be traced back to the inquisition. In the early 1200s the vatican enruled that people had to be reset to their orthodox religious ways, one way of doing so was to again start searching for suspicious acts which may involve witchcraft, those involved were to be punished, just like they were in medieval times. This interference conjured a new fascination for witchcraft and other dark or supernatural matters.
Dante’s Divine Comedy depicted the devil in such a way it would prove to be highly influential for horror writings, horror at …show more content…
Horror cinema rose the idea of 50s and 60s comics, partly because there were certain cruelties that the so called ‘silver screen’ could not show properly according to fanatic readers. As the comics were nearly limitless and utterly controversial, many features were censored. The genre seemed to lift itself up by both film and literature, as they were trying to compete with themselves, they were also both much influenced by historic events like the horrors of the war. Technology made horror film grow in its possibilities, this evidently opened new ideas for horror literature, as literature became more gory and
Before the genre started evolving into what it is today, the method of frightening people through words and tales has been done from at least the first recorded stories. But before we continue, when spoken of horror it is not all that frightens man, but all supernatural fiction with a dark side; witches, werewolves, etc.
Folklore and religious traditions contain the roots of horror because of fictional characters, for example vampires, whom can be found in even the oldest of folklore.
But the first horror literature that can be related tot the horror we have today can be traced back to the inquisition. In the early 1200s the vatican enruled that people had to be reset to their orthodox religious ways, one way of doing so was to again start searching for suspicious acts which may involve witchcraft, those involved were to be punished, just like they were in medieval times. This interference conjured a new fascination for witchcraft and other dark or supernatural matters.
Dante’s Divine Comedy depicted the devil in such a way it would prove to be highly influential for horror writings, horror at …show more content…
Horror cinema rose the idea of 50s and 60s comics, partly because there were certain cruelties that the so called ‘silver screen’ could not show properly according to fanatic readers. As the comics were nearly limitless and utterly controversial, many features were censored. The genre seemed to lift itself up by both film and literature, as they were trying to compete with themselves, they were also both much influenced by historic events like the horrors of the war. Technology made horror film grow in its possibilities, this evidently opened new ideas for horror literature, as literature became more gory and