Chronology Of Classic Horror Films The 1940s
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| Author | : Donald C. Willis |
| Publisher | : Midnight Marquee Press, Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-03-22 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9781644301319 |
Author Donald Willis continues his insights into horror film history with his new tome on the 1940s. Yes, we had vampires and the Frankenstein Monster, mummies, a new villain-the Wolf Man, dark moody Val Lewton films and a slew of comic monster rallies. If the 1930s was Universal and monsters, the 1940s was RKO and mood-states of mind. The Palladists in The Seventh Victim, Kyra (Helene Thimig), in Isle of the Dead and (outside RKO) Count Fosco (Sydney Greenstreet) in The Woman in White-all work on their victims psychologically-to the point of death. They wear down their chosen prey mentally. Meanwhile, Universal in the 1940s could be seen to have been spinning its wheels for about seven years, until the logical, comic outcome in 1948: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
| Author | : Donald C. Willis |
| Publisher | : Chronology of Classic Horror Films |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2019-10-17 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781644300824 |
A history and critique of horror films of the 1930s.
| Author | : Gregory William Mank |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 2015-09-15 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476609551 |
They had more in common than just a scream, whether they faced Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, King Kong, the Wolf Man, or any of the other legendary Hollywood monsters. Some were even monsters themselves, such as Elsa Lanchester as the Bride, and Gloria Holden as Dracula's Daughter. And while evading the Strangler of the Swamp, former Miss America Rosemary La Planche is allowed to rescue her leading man. This book provides details about the lives and careers of 21 of these cinematic leading ladies, femmes fatales, monsters, and misfits, putting into perspective their contributions to the films and folklore of Hollywood terror--and also the sexual harassment, exploitation, and genuine danger they faced on the job. Veteran actress Virginia Christine recalls Universal burying her alive in a backlot swamp in full "mummy" makeup for the resurrection scene in The Mummy's Curse--and how the studio saved that scene for the last day in case she suffocated. Filled with anecdotes and recollections, many of the entries are based on original interviews, and there are numerous old photographs and movie stills.
| Author | : Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2014-12-11 |
| Genre | : 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.
| Author | : Wheeler Winston Dixon |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2010-08-24 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0813550394 |
Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of Horror is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever-popular film genre. Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one-stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman and their various incarnations in film from the silent era to comedic sequels. A History of Horror explores how the horror film fits into the Hollywood studio system and how its enormous success in American and European culture expanded globally over time. Dixon examines key periods in the horror film-in which the basic precepts of the genre were established, then banished into conveniently reliable and malleable forms, and then, after collapsing into parody, rose again and again to create new levels of intensity and menace. A History of Horror, supported by rare stills from classic films, brings over fifty timeless horror films into frightfully clear focus, zooms in on today's top horror Web sites, and champions the stars, directors, and subgenres that make the horror film so exciting and popular with contemporary audiences.
| Author | : Bruce G. Hallenbeck |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2009-08-11 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0786453788 |
Fun and fright have long been partners in the cinema, dating back to the silent film era and progressing to the Scary Movie franchise and other recent releases. This guide takes a comprehensive look at the comedy-horror movie genre, from the earliest stabs at melding horror and hilarity during the nascent days of silent film, to its full-fledged development with The Bat in 1926, to the Abbott and Costello films pitting the comedy duo against Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy and other Universal Studio monsters, continuing to such recent cult hits as Shaun of the Dead and Black Sheep. Selected short films such as Tim Burton's Frankenweenie are also covered. Photos and promotional posters, interviews with actors and a filmography are included.
| Author | : Gregory William Mank |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2015-09-15 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476609543 |
They had more in common than just a scream, whether they faced Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, King Kong, the Wolf Man, or any of the other legendary Hollywood monsters. Some were even monsters themselves, such as Elsa Lanchester as the Bride, and Gloria Holden as Dracula's Daughter. And while evading the Strangler of the Swamp, former Miss America Rosemary La Planche is allowed to rescue her leading man. This book provides details about the lives and careers of 21 of these cinematic leading ladies, femmes fatales, monsters, and misfits, putting into perspective their contributions to the films and folklore of Hollywood terror--and also the sexual harassment, exploitation, and genuine danger they faced on the job. In a previously unpublished account, Bride of Frankenstein's Anne Darling remembers when, at age 17, she was humiliated on-set by director James Whale over the color of her underwear. Filled with anecdotes and recollections, many of the entries are based on original interviews, and there are numerous old photographs and movie stills.
| Author | : David Konow |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 551 |
| Release | : 2012-10-02 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1250013593 |
From the author of the definitive heavy metal history, Bang Your Head, a behind-the-scenes look a century of horror films Reel Terror is a love letter to the wildly popular yet still misunderstood genre that churns out blockbusters and cult classics year after year. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Paranormal Activity, Konow explores its all-time highs and lows, why the genre has been overlooked, and how horror films just might help us overcome fear. His on-set stories and insights delve into each movie and its effect on American culture. For novices to all out film buffs, this is the perfection companion to this Halloween's movie marathons.
| Author | : Frank J. Dello Stritto |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2003-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780970426918 |
Hollywood of the 1930s and 1940s produced dozens of horror and monster movies. Today, the reputations of these black and white films range from classic to schlock, but to their young audiences they were more than entertainment. For school-age moviegoers of the Great Depression and World War II, and after-school television addicts of the 1950s and 1960s,. The classic movie monsters were figures of myth. Delves into both what is on the screen and what is just beyond it in classic horror films.
| Author | : Denis Gifford |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Horror films |
| ISBN | : 9780600373087 |
