It was worth the money if ...

Given the amount of work that this beautiful book and had to represent the richness of the proposed study, I do not think the price is exaggerated. But I would make one caveat. For those who have a superficial knowledge of the genre (say, between "the hill of the eyes" and "straw dogs" through "Deliverance" reading can sometimes be monotonous ... frame stories are more or less the Similarly, actors, movies and musicians are more or less unknown here. The others however will have a bible on the subject.