Shock Value (book)

Shock Value

Author	Jason Zinoman
Language	English
Subject	Film criticism
Published	2011 (The Penguin Press)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	274
ISBN	978-1-59420-302-2

Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror is a 2011 American book by Jason Zinoman. It traces the evolution of horror films as they began to focus on more reality-based, less campy subjects during the late 1960s and early 1970s.