Heavy Metal at the Movies - Paperback

by Gerd Bayer (Editor)

The chapters collected in this volume shed light on the areas of interaction between film studies and heavy metal research, exploring how the audio-visual medium of film relates to, builds on, and shapes metal culture. At one end of the spectrum, metal music serves as a form of ambient background in horror films that create an intense and somewh

Author Biography

Gerd Bayer is Professor of English (and Akademischer Direktor) at the University of Erlangen (Germany), where he teaches English literature and culture. The author of two monographs on British literature, most recently of Novel Horizons (2015), he has edited a number of books, including Heavy Metal Music in Britain (Ashgate, 2009; pbk. Routledge, 2016) and Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century (2015, with Oleksandr Kobrynskyy).