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[Bogan The Wanderer]

Another academic study of European horror films has appeared. Pennsylvanian professor Ian Olney has published Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture through the Indiana University Press.  The book is listed as a 'revised and expanded edition', but I've never heard of it before now.

http://www.amazon.com/Euro-Horror-European-Contemporary-Directions/dp/025300652X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364443173&sr=1-1&keywords=ian+olney

Amazon has a Kindle edition available for ten bucks, a standard priced paperback, and the usual insane academic pricing for the hardcover.  The Google books preview gives a reasonable idea of what's inside -

http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Euro_Horror.html?id=HlxsqQpT3GUC&redir_esc=y

I'm glad writers are paying more attention to European horror, but I'm hopeful a worthwhile non-academic study will come along eventually.

[Paul]

You lost me at "academic study" 

[Bogan The Wanderer]

Yeah, I know      Honestly if authors of books like this would just dump the stuffy (and really quite pointless) academic add-ons, I'd find the volumes much more appealing.

[Inspector Tanzi]

You lost me at "academic study" 

Likewise.

"Let's see how many words I can cram into a sentence that you may need to get a dictionary out for to prove how clever I am."

or/and

"I'm going to delve so deep into this film I'm going to find and analyse stuff that isn't even there and feel smug and up my own arse for doing so whilst seeking praise from highly intellectual types"