| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 353 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: fragments of the monster "recovering a lost decade" / Mario Degiglio-Bellemare, Kristopher Woofter -- Image: motion picture purgatory: The devil bat (1940) / Rick Trembles -- Interventions. A "Darkly hypothetical reality": "Gothic realism" in 1940s Hollywood horror / Kristopher Woofter -- "Strange pleasure": 1940s proto-slasher cinema / Peter Marra -- Dead zone: genre, gender, and the "lost decade" of horror cinema, 1946-56 / Ian Olney -- Val Lewton, Mr. Gross, and the Grand-Guignol: re-staging the corpse in The body snatcher / Mario Degiglio-Bellemare -- Hybridity. Robert Siodmak's The spiral staircase: horror genre hybridity, vertical alterity and the avant-garde / Anne Golden -- The child witness: peril and empowerment in 1940s horror, from The East Side kids to The window / Kier-la Janisse -- Making visible the sonic threat: the Inner Sanctum Mysteries radio series and its Universal Studios film adaptations / Charlie Ellbé -- Poe, horror, and the cinematic mystery hybrids of the 1940s / Dennis R. Perry -- "The murderer's mind": Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and the monstrous psychologies of 1940s horror film / Mark Jancovich -- History. Serial killers, deals with the devil and the madness of crowds: the horror film in Nazi-occupied France / David Hanley -- "Always hearing voices, never hearing mine": sound and fury in The snake pit / Karen Herland -- The demise of the cinematic zombie: from the golden age of Hollywood to the 1940s / Louise Fenton -- Fears new and old: the post-war American horror film / Gary D. Rhodes -- Poverty row. Hypodermic needles and evil twins: the poverty row wartime horrors of Sam Newfield / Paul Corupe -- Of apes and men (and monsters and girls): the ape film and 1940s horror cinema / Blair Davis -- The perfect Neanderthal man: Rondo Hatton as The creeper and the cultural economy of 1940s B-movies / Cory Legassic -- The vampire's ghost: the case for a poverty row horror classic / Selma A. Purac |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Horror films -- United States -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Horror films
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Motion pictures
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Skräckfilm, USA, 1940-t.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
DeGiglio-Bellemare, Mario, 1965- editor.
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Ellbé, Charlie, 1986- editor.
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Woofter, Kristopher, 1971- editor.
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| LC no. |
2020739474 |
| ISBN |
9781498503808 |
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1498503802 |
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