ReFocus: The Films of William Castle (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Leeder, Murray

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With an influence felt on directors like Joe Dante, Robert Zemeckis and John Waters, this volume reappraises Castle''s legacy as an innovator as much as a showman.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474424288
• Artikelnr.: 72430888

Autorenporträt

Murray Leeder is Instructor in Film Studies at the University of Calgary.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Many Castles
Section 1: The Early Castle
Hugh S. Manon, "When Strangers Marry: Film Noir as Mediated Gothic"
Zachary Rearick, "Gender in William Castle's Westerns"
Section 2: The Gimmick Cycle
Anthony Thomas McKenna, "He Earned Our Forgiveness: William Castle and
American Movie Showmanship"
Murray Leeder, "Collective Screams: William Castle and the Gimmick Film"
Beth Kattelman, "Dying to See It: Death by Fright and William Castle's
Macabre"
Eliot Bessette, "How to View 13 Ghosts"
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, "The Face of Horror: Mr. Sardonicus and the Mask
as Technological Interface"
Section 3: Castle, Authorship and Genre
Steffen Hantke, "A Sick Mind in Search of a Monstrous Body: William Castle
and the Emergence of Psychological Horror in the 1960s"
Michael Brodski and Caroline Langhorst, "'What a Wicked Game to Play?':
Playfulness, Generic Hybridity, and Cult Appeal in Castle's 1960s Films"
Michael Petitti, "Where Did Our Love Go?" The Case of William Castle's The
Night Walker
Section 4: Castle's Legacy
Peter Marra, "Homo/cidal: William Castle's 1960s Killer Queers"
Kate J. Russell, "The Cinematic Pandemonium of William Castle and John
Waters"