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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films.

Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Lexington Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span style=""mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto""><span>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.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>

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 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-9787-2612-0

1-4985-0380-2

OCLC:

898770898