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After Dracula : the 1930s horror film / Alison Peirse.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.H6 P457 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peirse, Alison.
- Series:
- International library of the moving image ; v. 2.
- International library of the moving image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Motion pictures--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2013.
- Summary:
- 'After Dracula' tells of films set in London music halls and Yorkshire coal mines, South Sea islands and Hungarian modernist houses of horror, with narrators that travel in space and time from contemporary Paris to ancient Egypt. Alison Peirse argues that 'Dracula', 1931, has been canonised to the detriment of other innovative and original 1930s horror films in Europe and America. She reveals a cycle of films made over the 1930s that are independent and studio productions, literary adaptations, folktales and original screenplays.
- Contents:
- Introduction : when the coffin creaks
- Remembering horror in The mummy
- 'Stubborn beast flesh' : the Panther Woman and Island of lost souls
- White zombie and the emergence of zombie cinema
- Vampyr and the Eruopean avant-garde
- Bauhaus of horror : film architecture and The black cat
- The 1930s British horror film
- Werewolf of London and the origins of werewolf cinema
- Conclusion : (re)making film histories
- Notes
- Filmography
- Selected bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781848855304
- 1848855303
- 1848855311
- 9781848855311
- OCLC:
- 813861717
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