Critical readings on Hammer horror films / edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Matthew Edwards.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pagnoni Berns, Fernando Gabriel, 1975- editor.

Edwards, Matthew, 1978- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge advances in horror

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hammer Film Productions.

Horror films--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Motion pictures--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Contents:

The mystery of the Mary Celeste : Hammer's first horror / Matthew Banks

The Quatermass anxiety and the evil within : re-emerging Victorian ethos in post-war science-fiction narratives / César Guarde-Paz

Hammer Studio's Captain Clegg and the genre legacy of swashbuckling gothic horror / Garret Castleberry

I Bette you I'm a great mother : middle-aged women and grotesque maternity / Canela Ailén Rodríguez Fontao and Mariana Zárate

'A sickness partly spiritual, partly physical' : monster, savant, gender and class in The Brides of Dracula (1960) / TD Velasquez

"Give me a skin for dancing in" : female grotesquery and desire in The witches (1966) / Nicole Hamilton

Children of the night : vampiric blood lines, reproduction, and queer futurity in Hammer Horror's Karnstein trilogy / Katie Duggan

Let horror speak : theodicy, eschatology, and rebellion in Hammer's Dracula and Frankenstein films / Andrew Grossman

House of horror : domestic architecture and eco-gothic slippage in The reptile (1966) and Children of the full moon (1980) / Brenda S. Gardenour Walter

Sinking masculinity in Hammer's cycle of mummies / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

The sun has finally set : Hammer House of Horror as postimperial provincial horror / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

The kick and/or the crucifix : the legend of the 7 golden vampires and the kung fu craze of 1970s / Diganta Roy

Postmodernity and elevated horror in The lodge (2019) / Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith Suresh

The Satanist : an interview with David Wickes

Visitor from the grave : an interview with actor Kathryn Scott

Revenge of the runners : an interview with Brian Reynolds

Run like hell : an interview with Hammer Film production runner Phil Campbell

Doctor Jekyll : an interview with Joe Stephenson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 16, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Critical readings on Hammer horror films

ISBN:

9781003458609

1003458602

9781040089989

1040089984

Publisher Number:

40032406864

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.