Recovering 1940s horror cinema : traces of a lost decade / edited by Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Charlie Ellbe, and Kristopher Woofter.

Contributor(s): DeGiglio-Bellemare, Mario, 1965- [editor.] | Ellbe, Charlie, 1986- [editor.] | Woofter, Kristopher, 1971- [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]Copyright date: 2015Description: 1 online resource (379 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781498503808Subject(s): Horror films -- United States -- History and criticism | Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Recovering 1940s horror cinema : traces of a lost decade.DDC classification: 791.43/616409044 LOC classification: PN1995.9.H6 | R43 2015Online resources: Click to View
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 Ellbe -- Poe, horror, and the cinematic mystery hybrids of the 1940s / Dennis 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 -- Tthe vampire's ghost: the case for a poverty row horror classic / Selma Purac.
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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 Ellbe -- Poe, horror, and the cinematic mystery hybrids of the 1940s / Dennis 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 -- Tthe vampire's ghost: the case for a poverty row horror classic / Selma Purac.

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