Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema (eBook, PDF)

Traces of a Lost Decade
Redaktion: Degiglio-Bellemare, Mario; Woofter, Kristopher; Ellbé, Charlie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a "classical" period or "canonical" mode of horror in the 1930s, especially as represented by the monster films of Universal Studios. The book's four sections re-evaluate the historical, political, economic, and cultural factors informing 1940s horror cinema to introduce new theoretical frameworks and to open up space for scholarly discussion of 1940s horror genre hybridity, periodization, and aesthetics. Chapters focused on Gothic and Grand Guignol traditions operating in forties horror cinema, 1940s proto-slasher films, the independent horrors of the Poverty Row studios, and critical reevaluations of neglected hybrid films such as The Vampire's Ghost (1945) and "slippery" auteurs such as Robert Siodmak and Sam Neufield, work to recover a decade of horror that has been framed as having fallen victim to repetition, exhaustion, and decline.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881881979
• Artikelnr.: 74850675

Autorenporträt

Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare teaches genre cinema and monster ethics in the Humanities Department of John Abbott College. Charlie Ellbé earned an M.A. in film studies at Concordia University, with a focus on art direction in 1930s Universal horror. Kristopher Woofter teaches horror cinema and the Gothic in the English Department of Dawson College.

Inhaltsangabe

"Introduction: Fragments of the Monster-Recovering a Lost Decade"
Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Kristopher Woofter
Image:
"Motion Picture Purgatory: The Devil Bat (1940)"
Rick Trembles
Part I. Interventions
Chapter 1. "A 'Darkly Hypothetical Reality': 'Gothic Realism' in 1940s
Hollywood Horror"
Kristopher Woofter
Chapter 2. "Strange Pleasure: 1940s Proto-Slasher Cinema"
Peter Marra
Chapter 3. "Dead Zone: Genre, Gender, and the 'Lost Decade' of Horror
Cinema, 1946-56"
Ian Olney
Chapter 4. "Val Lewton, Mr. Gross, and the Grand-Guignol: 'Re-Staging' the
Corpse in The Body Snatcher
Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare
Part II. Hybridity
Chapter 5. "Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase: Horror Genre Hybridity,
Vertical Alterity and the Avant-Garde"
Anne Golden
Chapter 6. "The Child Witness: Peril and Empowerment in 1940s Horror, from
The East Side Kids to The Window"
Kier-La Janisse
Chapter 7. "Making Visible the Sonic Threat: The Inner Sanctum Mysteries
Radio Series and Its Universal Studios Film Adaptation