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Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema
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Artikel-Nr:
9781498503808
Veröffentl:
2014
Seiten:
372
Autor:
Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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.
“Introduction: Fragments of the Monster—Recovering a Lost Decade”Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Kristopher WoofterImage:“Motion Picture Purgatory: The Devil Bat (1940)”Rick TremblesPart 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. HybridityChapter 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 Adaptations”
Charlie Ellbé
Chapter 8. “Poe, Horror, and the Cinematic Mystery Hybrids of the 1940s”
Dennis Perry
Chapter 9. “The Murderer's Mind: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and the Monstrous Psychologies of 1940s Horror Film”
Mark Jancovich
Part III. HistoryChapter 10. “Serial Killers, Deals with the Devil and the Madness of Crowds: The Horror Film in Nazi-Occupied France”David Hanley
Chapter 11. “‘Always Hearing Voices, Never Hearing Mine’: Sound and Fury in The Snake Pit”
Karen Herland
Chapter 12. “The Demise of the Cinematic Zombie: From the Golden Age of Hollywood to the 1940s”
Louise Fenton
Chapter 13. “Fears New and Old: The Post-War American Horror Film”
Gary D. Rhodes
Part IV. Poverty RowChapter 14. “Hypodermic Needles and Evil Twins: The Poverty Row Wartime Horrors of Sam Newfield”
Paul Corupe
Chapter 15. “Of Apes and Men (and Monsters and Girls): The Ape Film and 1940s Horror Cinema”
Blair Davis
Chapter 16. “‘The Perfect Neanderthal Man’: Rondo Hatton as ‘The Creeper’ and the Cultural Economy of 1940s B-Movies”
Cory LegassicChapter 17. “TheVampire’s Ghost: The Case for a Poverty Row Horror Classic”
Selma Purac
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. HybridityChapter 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 Adaptations”
Charlie Ellbé
Chapter 8. “Poe, Horror, and the Cinematic Mystery Hybrids of the 1940s”
Dennis Perry
Chapter 9. “The Murderer's Mind: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and the Monstrous Psychologies of 1940s Horror Film”
Mark Jancovich
Part III. HistoryChapter 10. “Serial Killers, Deals with the Devil and the Madness of Crowds: The Horror Film in Nazi-Occupied France”David Hanley
Chapter 11. “‘Always Hearing Voices, Never Hearing Mine’: Sound and Fury in The Snake Pit”
Karen Herland
Chapter 12. “The Demise of the Cinematic Zombie: From the Golden Age of Hollywood to the 1940s”
Louise Fenton
Chapter 13. “Fears New and Old: The Post-War American Horror Film”
Gary D. Rhodes
Part IV. Poverty RowChapter 14. “Hypodermic Needles and Evil Twins: The Poverty Row Wartime Horrors of Sam Newfield”
Paul Corupe
Chapter 15. “Of Apes and Men (and Monsters and Girls): The Ape Film and 1940s Horror Cinema”
Blair Davis
Chapter 16. “‘The Perfect Neanderthal Man’: Rondo Hatton as ‘The Creeper’ and the Cultural Economy of 1940s B-Movies”
Cory LegassicChapter 17. “TheVampire’s Ghost: The Case for a Poverty Row Horror Classic”
Selma Purac