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Good Versus Evil in the Films of Christopher Lee

Author : Paul Leggett

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 186 pages

File Size : 44,71 MB

Release : 2018-05-24

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1476669635

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Sir Christopher Lee (1922-2015) was one of the most beloved actors of the past sixty years. He appeared in more than 200 feature films--from Hammer Horror and James Bond thrillers to Star Wars and Lord of the Rings--and more than 100 made-for-televison movies. A versatile performer, he played a menacing figure in Dracula and The Wicker Man, a tragic one in The Curse of Frankenstein and The Mummy, and a spiritual hero in The Devil Rides Out. This study explores his legacy as a film actor and his diverse interpretations of the theme of good vs. evil.



The Christopher Lee Filmography

Author : Tom Johnson

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 481 pages

File Size : 49,74 MB

Release : 2016-05-01

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1476608962

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The career of Christopher Lee has stretched over half a century in every sort of film from comedy to horror and in such diverse roles as the Man With the Golden Gun, Frankenstein's monster, Fu Manchu and Sherlock Holmes. From Corridor of Mirrors in 1948 to Star Wars: Episode II-Attack of the Clones in 2002, this reference book covers 166 theatrical feature films: all production information, full cast and crew credits, a synopsis, and a critical analysis, with a detailed account of its making and commentary drawn from some thirty hours of interviews with Lee himself. Two appendices list Lee's television feature films and miniseries and his short films. The work concludes with an afterword by Christopher Lee himself. Photographs from the actor's private collection are included.



Tall, Dark, and Gruesome

Author : Christopher Lee

Publisher :

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 38,61 MB

Release : 1997-01-01

Category : Motion picture actors and actresses

ISBN : 9780575064973

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Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema

Author : Mark A. Miller

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 563 pages

File Size : 45,78 MB

Release : 2020-02-28

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 147663842X

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From their first pairing in Hamlet (1948) to House of the Long Shadows (1983), British film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing forged perhaps the most successful collaboration in horror film history. In its revised and expanded second edition, this volume examines their 22 movie team-ups, with critical commentary, complete cast and credits, production information, details on cinematography and make-up, exhibition history and box-office figures. A wealth of background about Hammer, Amicus and other production companies is provided, along with more than 100 illustrations. Lee and Cushing describe particulars of their partnership in original interviews. Exclusive interviews with Robert Bloch, Hazel Court and nearly fifty other actors, directors and others who worked on the Lee-Cushing films are included.



Silver Screen Fiend

Author : Patton Oswalt

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 28,7 MB

Release : 2015-10-13

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1451673221

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"Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol or sex: it was film. After moving to L.A., Oswalt became a huge film buff (or as he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult hits, and new releases at the New Beverly Cinema. Silver screen celluloid became Patton's life schoolbook, informing his notion of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships. Set in the nascent days of L.A.'s alternative comedy scene, Oswalt's memoir chronicles his journey from fledgling stand-up comedian to self-assured sitcom actor, with the colorful New Beverly collective and a cast of now-notable young comedians supporting him all along the way"--



Stiff Lips

Author : Anne Billson

Publisher :

Page : 392 pages

File Size : 16,41 MB

Release : 1996

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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No-one believes in ghosts, even in WWII, but strange things are going on in Hampshire Place. Sophie's in love with a writer who killed himself years before. At Halloween, as the midnight hour approaches, it's time for the boy to get the girl. Forever.



The Supernatural Sublime

Author : Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández

Publisher : U of Nebraska Press

Page : 317 pages

File Size : 22,13 MB

Release : 2019-07-01

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1496214242

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The Supernatural Sublime explores the long-neglected element of the supernatural in films from Spain and Mexico by focusing on the social and cultural contexts of their production and reception, their adaptations of codes and conventions for characters and plot, and their use of cinematic techniques to create the experience of emotion without explanation. Deploying the overarching concepts of the supernatural and the sublime, Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández and Claudia Schaefer detail the dovetailing of the unnatural and the experience of limitlessness associated with the sublime. The Supernatural Sublime embeds the films in the social histories of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexico and Spain, both of which made a forced leap into modernity after historical periods founded on official ideologies and circumscribed visions of the nation. Evoking Kant’s definition of the experience of the sublime, Rodríguez-Hernández and Schaefer concentrate on the unrepresentable and the contradictory that oppose purported universal truths and instead offer up illusion, deception, and imagination through cinema, itself a type of illusion: writing with light.



Monsters in the Movies

Author : John Landis

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 29,67 MB

Release : 2011-09-19

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0756688469

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From cinema's earliest days, being scared out of your wits has always been one of the best reasons for going to the movies. From B-movie bogeymen and outer space oddities to big-budget terrors, Monsters in the Movies by horror film maestro John Landis celebrates the greatest monsters ever to creep, fly, slither, stalk or rampage across the Silver Screen. Landis also surveys the historical origins of archetypal monsters, such as vampires, zombies and werewolves, and takes you behind the scenes to discover the secrets of the special-effects wizards who created such legendary frighteners as King Kong, Dracula, the Alien, and Freddy Krueger. Monsters in the Movies by John Landis is filled with the author's own fascinating and entertaining insights into the world of movie-making, and includes memorable contributions from leading directors, actors and monster-makers. The book is also stunningly illustrated with 1000 movie stills and posters drawn from the unrivaled archives of the Kobal Collection. Contents Introduction by John Landis... Explore a timeless world of fears and nightmares as John Landis investigates what makes a legendary movie monster • Monsters, chapter by chapter... Feast your eyes upon a petrifying parade of voracious Vampires, flesh-eating Zombies, slavering Werewolves, gigantic Apes and Supernatural Terrors • Spectacular double-page features... Thrill to the strangest, scariest, weirdest, and craziest movie monsters ever seen • The ingenious tricks of movie-making... Marvel as the special-effects wizards reveal how they create movie magic • A monster-movie timeline... Discover John Landis's personal selection of landmark horror films



Shocking Representation

Author : Adam Lowenstein

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 40,43 MB

Release : 2005-12-22

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0231132468

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In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju, Michael Powell, Shindo Kaneto, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg. He shows that through allegorical representations these directors' films confronted and challenged comforting historical narratives and notions of national identity intended to soothe public anxieties in the aftermath of national traumas. Borrowing elements from art cinema and the horror genre, these directors disrupted the boundaries between high and low cinema. Lowenstein contrasts their works, often dismissed by contemporary critics, with the films of acclaimed "New Wave" directors in France, England, Japan, and the United States. He argues that these "New Wave" films, which were embraced as both art and national cinema, often upheld conventional ideas of nation, history, gender, and class questioned by the horror films. By fusing film studies with the emerging field of trauma studies, and drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin, Adam Lowenstein offers a bold reassessment of the modern horror film and the idea of national cinema.



Lord of Misrule

Author : Christopher Lee

Publisher : Orion Publishing Company

Page : 431 pages

File Size : 31,11 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780752859330

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Autobiography of one of Britain's most distinguished actors.