Recovering 1940s horror cinema : : traces of a lost decade / / edited by Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Charlie Ellbe, and Kristopher Woofter.

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Place / Publishing House:Lanham : : Lexington Books,, [2015]
2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (379 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: fragments of the monster "recovering a lost decade" / Mario Degiglio-Bellemare, Kristopher Woofter
  • Image: motion picture purgatory: The devil bat (1940) / Rick Trembles
  • Interventions. A darkly hypothetical reality: gothic realism in 1940s Hollywood horror / Kristopher Woofter
  • Strange pleasure: 1940s proto-slasher cinema / Peter Marra
  • Dead zone: genre, gender, and the lost decade of horror cinema, 1946-56 / Ian Olney
  • Val Lewton, Mr. Gross, and the Grand-Guignol: re-staging the corpse in The body snatcher / Mario Degiglio-Bellemare
  • Hybridity. Robert Siodmak's The spiral staircase: horror genre hybridity, vertical alterity and the avant-garde / Anne Golden
  • The child witness: peril and empowerment in 1940s horror, from The East Side kids to The window / Kier-la Janisse
  • Making visible the sonic threat: the Inner Sanctum Mysteries radio series and its Universal Studios film adaptations / Charlie Ellbe
  • Poe, horror, and the cinematic mystery hybrids of the 1940s / Dennis Perry
  • The murderer's mind: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and the monstrous psychologies of 1940s horror film / Mark Jancovich
  • History. Serial killers, deals with the devil and the madness of crowds: the horror film in Nazi-occupied France / David Hanley
  • Always hearing voices, never hearing mine: sound and fury in The snake pit / Karen Herland
  • The demise of the cinematic zombie: from the golden age of Hollywood to the 1940s / Louise Fenton
  • Fears new and old: the post-war American horror film / Gary D. Rhodes
  • Poverty row. Hypodermic needles and evil twins: the poverty row wartime horrors of Sam Newfield / Paul Corupe
  • Of apes and men (and monsters and girls): the ape film and 1940s horror cinema / Blair Davis
  • The perfect Neanderthal man: Rondo Hatton as "the creeper" and the cultural economy of 1940s B-movies / Cory Legassic
  • Tthe vampire's ghost: the case for a poverty row horror classic / Selma Purac.