Val Lewton: the Reality of Terror
Author : Joel E. Siegel
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Horror films
ISBN : 9780670743216
Author : Joel E. Siegel
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Horror films
ISBN : 9780670743216
Author : Joel E. Siegal
Publisher : London : Secker and Warburg; British film Institute
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Horror films
ISBN : 9780436099311
Author : J. P. Telotte
Publisher : Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Author : Joel E. Siegel
Publisher : New York : Viking Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 21,41 MB
Release : 1973
Category :
ISBN : 9780670019557
Author : Edmund G. Bansak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 2003-10-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786417094
Cat People (1942) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943) established Val Lewton's hauntingly graceful style where suggestion was often used in place of explicit violence. His stylish B thrillers were imitated by a generation of filmmakers such as Richard Wallace, William Castle, and even Walt Disney in his animated Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949). Through interviews with many of Lewton's associates (including his wife and son) and extensive research, his life and output are thoroughly examined.
Author : Val Lewton
Publisher : Kingly Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Depressions
ISBN : 9780953163960
In New York in the winter of 1931 Rose Mahoney loses her job. Unable to find other employment in time, she finds herself in homeless and alone in the big city.
Author : Bruce F. Kawin
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0857282417
Horror films can be profound fables of human nature and important works of art, yet many people dismiss them out of hand. ‘Horror and the Horror Film’ conveys a mature appreciation for horror films along with a comprehensive view of their narrative strategies, their relations to reality and fantasy and their cinematic power. The volume covers the horror film and its subgenres – such as the vampire movie – from 1896 to the present. It covers the entire genre by considering every kind of monster in it, including the human.
Author : Gary J. Svehla
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781936168118
The history of ghost cinema, as well as the haunting literature upon which the films are often based, is a noble tradition. Ghost films go back as far as the era of the Silents. This Midnight Marquee Press volume presents respected film writers' personal analyses of their favorite ghost films. Not necessarily the best of the genre, but always films of merit. The Mt. Everest of ghost films--the acclaimed classics--The Uninvited, The Innocents, The Haunting--are of course included. But also many neglected cinema specters are covered: Carnival of Souls, Lady in White, Portrait of Jennie, High Plains Drifter, etc. Most of these films are known by the average film buff, but several titles included may not be recognized (but are equally of merit and should be sought out). Often Ghost films have been overlooked by film historians and critics alike. This revised collection of Cinematic Hauntings hopes to remedy the situation.
Author : Richard Wallace
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 331977848X
This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television programmes make visible—through comedy—the performances that underpin straight documentaries and many of our public figures. Mockumentary Comedy focuses on the rock star and the politician, two figures that regularly feature as mockumentary subjects. These public figures are explored through detailed textual analyses of a range of film and television comedies, including A Hard Day’s Night, This is Spinal Tap, The Thick of It, Veep and the works of Christopher Guest and Alison Jackson. This book broadens the scope of existing mockumentary scholarship by taking comedy seriously in a sustained way for the first time. It ultimately argues that the comedic performances—by performers and of documentary conventions—are central to the form’s critical significance and popular appeal.
Author : Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1498503802
The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a “classical” period or “canonical” mode of horror in the 1930s, especially as represented by the monster films of Universal Studios. The book's four sections re-evaluate the historical, political, economic, and cultural factors informing 1940s horror cinema to introduce new theoretical frameworks and to open up space for scholarly discussion of 1940s horror genre hybridity, periodization, and aesthetics. Chapters focused on Gothic and Grand Guignol traditions operating in forties horror cinema, 1940s proto-slasher films, the independent horrors of the Poverty Row studios, and critical reevaluations of neglected hybrid films such as The Vampire’s Ghost (1945) and “slippery” auteurs such as Robert Siodmak and Sam Neufield, work to recover a decade of horror that has been framed as having fallen victim to repetition, exhaustion, and decline.