Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema

Traces of a Lost Decade

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Film, History & Criticism, Performing Arts, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
Cover of the book Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture, Lexington Books
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture ISBN: 9781498503808
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: December 11, 2014
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
ISBN: 9781498503808
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: December 11, 2014
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Lexington Books

Cover of the book Imagining Pakistan by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
Cover of the book Isabelle Eberhardt and North Africa by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
Cover of the book Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
Cover of the book African Pasts, Presents, and Futures by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
Cover of the book The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
Cover of the book The Korean Wave by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
Cover of the book The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
Cover of the book Women and Capitalism in the Croatian Hinterland by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
Cover of the book Confronting Urban Legacy by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
Cover of the book Petroleum Development and Environmental Conflict in Aotearoa New Zealand by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
Cover of the book The Church and the Market by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
Cover of the book The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
Cover of the book Student Loans in China by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
Cover of the book Reimagining Rural by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
Cover of the book Emotional State Theory by Paul Corupe, Blair Davis, Louise Fenton, Anne Golden, David Hanley, Karen Herland, Mark Jancovich, Kier-La Janisse, Cory Legassic, Peter Marra, Dennis R. Perry, Selma Purac, Gary D. Rhodes, Rick Trembles, Ian Olney, author of Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy