Meltdown at the Wax Museum
Author : Betty Birney
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Waxworks
ISBN : 9780769601861
Wax Museum Movies
Author : George Higham
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476640114
Book Description
Spanning over a century of cinema and comprised of 127 films, this book analyzes the cinematic incarnations of the "uncanniest place on earth"--wax museums. Nothing is as it seems at a wax museum. It is a place of wonder, horror and mystery. Will the figures come to life at night, or are they very much dead with corpses hidden beneath their waxen shells? Is the genius hand that molded them secretly scarred by a terrible tragedy, longing for revenge? Or is it a sinner's sanctum, harboring criminals with countless places to hide in plain sight? This chronological analysis includes essential behind the scenes information in addition to authoritative research comparing the creation of "real" wax figures to the "reel" ones seen onscreen. Publicly accessible or hidden away in a maniac's lair, wax museums have provided the perfect settings for films of all genres to thrillingly play out on the big screen since the dawn of cinema.
Fright Favorites
Author : David J. Skal
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0762497602
Book Description
Turner Classic Movies presents a collection of monster greats, modern and classic horror, and family-friendly cinematic treats that capture the spirit of Halloween, complete with reviews, behind-the-scenes stories, and iconic images. Fright Favorites spotlights 31 essential Halloween-time films, their associated sequels and remakes, and recommendations to expand your seasonal repertoire based on your favorites. Featured titles include Nosferatu (1922), Dracula (1931), Cat People (1942), Them (1953), House on Haunted Hill (1959), Black Sunday (1960), Rosemary's Baby (1968), Young Frankenstein (1976), Beetlejuice (1988), Get Out (2017), and many more.
Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum
Author : R.L. Stine
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545841720
Book Description
Choose your fate on a terrifying class trip in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that’s packed with more than twenty super-spooky endings. Your teacher thinks it’ll be good for your class to hang out at the new wax museum in town. Yeah, right! Once you get there your teacher starts blah-blahing about something or other and that’s when you and your friend see the red door. If you decide to check out what’s behind door #1, you’ll discover the museum owner’s secret for making lifelike sculptures. And it doesn’t look like fun! If you decide to ditch the red door and go the other way, you’ll end up meeting scary Sybil Wicked—and wish you hadn’t. Will you escape this creepy place before you’re turned into a human candle? The choice is yours . . . Reader beware—you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!
Weirdo Waldo's Wax Museum
Author : M. D. Spenser
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781576571514
Book Description
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
Author : Bill Cotter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738536064
Book Description
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States. More than one hundred fifty pavilions and exhibits spread over six hundred forty-six acres helped the fair live up to its reputation as "the Billion-Dollar Fair." With the cold war in full swing, the fair offered visitors a refreshingly positive view of the future, mirroring the official theme: Peace through Understanding. Guests could travel back in time through a display of full-sized dinosaurs, or look into a future where underwater hotels and flying cars were commonplace. They could enjoy Walt Disney's popular shows, or study actual spacecraft flown in orbit. More than fifty-one million guests visited the fair before it closed forever in 1965. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair captures the history of this event through vintage photographs, published here for the first time.
Ephemeral Bodies
Author : Julius Ritter von Schlosser
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892368778
Book Description
The critical history of wax is fraught with gaps and controversies. These eight essays explore wax reproductions of the body or body parts throughout history, and assess their conceptual ambiguity, material impermanence, and implications for the history of western art.
Wax Museum Movies
Author : George Higham
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476662193
Book Description
Spanning over a century of cinema and comprised of 127 films, this book analyzes the cinematic incarnations of the "uncanniest place on earth"--wax museums. Nothing is as it seems at a wax museum. It is a place of wonder, horror and mystery. Will the figures come to life at night, or are they very much dead with corpses hidden beneath their waxen shells? Is the genius hand that molded them secretly scarred by a terrible tragedy, longing for revenge? Or is it a sinner's sanctum, harboring criminals with countless places to hide in plain sight? This chronological analysis includes essential behind the scenes information in addition to authoritative research comparing the creation of "real" wax figures to the "reel" ones seen onscreen. Publicly accessible or hidden away in a maniac's lair, wax museums have provided the perfect settings for films of all genres to thrillingly play out on the big screen since the dawn of cinema.
Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors
Author : Pauline Chapman
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Book Description
Madame Tussaud
Author : Michelle Moran
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857380737
Book Description
Paris, 1788. Marie is a young woman in love with her oldest friend and neighbour, Henri. But she is also a determined businesswoman, eager to see her family's waxwork museum keep them safe and solvent. Her gift for modelling faces in wax brings her to Versailles, where she must teach the king's sister her skill. But the coming revolution will place Marie, her family and all of Paris in grave danger. As the monarchy is overthrown and the guillotine becomes a fixture in French life, Marie is expected to show her patriotism by making death masks from the severed heads of every key figure killed as the Reign of Terror begins and France enters its darkest time. How will Marie survive the Revolution? Who will survive it with her? And just how will this girl come to be known as the woman behind one of the most famous museums in the world?
