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| veröffentlicht: | Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2014. ©2014. |
| Medientyp: | Buch, E-Book |
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| Umfang: | 1 online resource (293 pages) |
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| ISBN: |
9781498503808
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Print version:: | DeGiglio-Bellemare, Mario, Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema, Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic,c2014 |
| Kollektion: | E-Books adlr |
The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This book deconstructs persistent scholarly discourse by re-evaluating the historical, political, economic, and cultural factors of 1940s horror cinema to recover a decade of horror. |
| Cover-Page Half-Title Title Copyright dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Fragments of the Monster: Recovering a Lost Decade Image: "Motion Picture Purgatory: The Devil Bat (1940)" Part I: Interventions 1 A "Darkly Hypothetical Reality": "Gothic Realism" in 1940s Hollywood Horror 2 "Strange Pleasure": 1940s Proto-Slasher Cinema 3 Dead Zone: Genre, Gender, and the "Lost Decade" of Horror Cinema, 1946-1956 4 Val Lewton, Mr. Gross, and the Grand-Guignol: Re-Staging the Corpse in The Body Snatcher Part II: Hybridity 5 Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase: Horror Genre Hybridity, Vertical Alterity, and the Avant-Garde 6 The Child Witness: Peril and Empowerment in 1940s Horror, from The East Side Kids to The Window 7 Making Visible the Sonic Threat: The Inner Sanctum Mysteries Radio Series and Its Universal Studios Film Adaptations 8 Poe, Horror, and the Cinematic Mystery Hybrids of the 1940s 9 "The Murderer's Mind": Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, and the Monstrous Psychologies of 1940s Horror Film Part III: History 10 Serial Killers, Deals with the Devil, and the Madness of Crowds: The Horror Film in Nazi-Occupied France 11 "Always Hearing Voices, Never Hearing Mine": Sound and Fury in The Snake Pit 12 The Demise of the Cinematic Zombie: From the Golden Age of Hollywood to the 1940s 13 Fears New and Old: The Post-War American Horror Film Part IV: Poverty Row 14 Hypodermic Needles and Evil Twins: The Poverty Row Wartime Horrors of Sam Newfield 15 Of Apes and Men (and Monsters and Girls): The Ape Film and 1940s Horror Cinema 16 "The Perfect Neanderthal Man": Rondo Hatton as The Creeper and the Cultural Economy of 1940s B-Films 17 The Vampire's Ghost: The Case for a Poverty Row Classic Index About the Editors and Contributors. |