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050 4 _aPN1995.9.H6 -- R43 2015eb
082 0 _a791.43/616409044
100 1 _aDeGiglio-Bellemare, Mario.
245 1 0 _aRecovering 1940s Horror Cinema :
_bTraces of a Lost Decade.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aBlue Ridge Summit :
_bLexington Books/Fortress Academic,
_c2014.
264 4 _c©2014.
300 _a1 online resource (293 pages)
336 _atext
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505 0 _aCover-Page -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fragments of the Monster: Recovering a Lost Decade -- Image: "Motion Picture Purgatory: The Devil Bat (1940)" -- Part I: Interventions -- 1 A "Darkly Hypothetical Reality": "Gothic Realism" in 1940s Hollywood Horror -- 2 "Strange Pleasure": 1940s Proto-Slasher Cinema -- 3 Dead Zone: Genre, Gender, and the "Lost Decade" of Horror Cinema, 1946-1956 -- 4 Val Lewton, Mr. Gross, and the Grand-Guignol: Re-Staging the Corpse in The Body Snatcher -- Part II: Hybridity -- 5 Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase: Horror Genre Hybridity, Vertical Alterity, and the Avant-Garde -- 6 The Child Witness: Peril and Empowerment in 1940s Horror, from The East Side Kids to The Window -- 7 Making Visible the Sonic Threat: The Inner Sanctum Mysteries Radio Series and Its Universal Studios Film Adaptations -- 8 Poe, Horror, and the Cinematic Mystery Hybrids of the 1940s -- 9 "The Murderer's Mind": Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, and the Monstrous Psychologies of 1940s Horror Film -- Part III: History -- 10 Serial Killers, Deals with the Devil, and the Madness of Crowds: The Horror Film in Nazi-Occupied France -- 11 "Always Hearing Voices, Never Hearing Mine": Sound and Fury in The Snake Pit -- 12 The Demise of the Cinematic Zombie: From the Golden Age of Hollywood to the 1940s -- 13 Fears New and Old: The Post-War American Horror Film -- Part IV: Poverty Row -- 14 Hypodermic Needles and Evil Twins: The Poverty Row Wartime Horrors of Sam Newfield -- 15 Of Apes and Men (and Monsters and Girls): The Ape Film and 1940s Horror Cinema -- 16 "The Perfect Neanderthal Man": Rondo Hatton as The Creeper and the Cultural Economy of 1940s B-Films -- 17 The Vampire's Ghost: The Case for a Poverty Row Classic -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
520 _aThe 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aHorror films - United States - History.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aEllbé, Charlie.
700 1 _aWoofter, Kristopher.
700 1 _aCorupe, Paul.
700 1 _aDavis, Blair.
700 1 _aFenton, Louise.
700 1 _aGolden, Anne.
700 1 _aHanley, David.
700 1 _aHerland, Karen.
700 1 _aJancovich, Mark.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aDeGiglio-Bellemare, Mario
_tRecovering 1940s Horror Cinema
_dBlue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic,c2014
_z9781498503792
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1899507
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