ReFocus : : The Films of William Castle / / Murray Leeder.
The first collection of essays devoted to Hollywood director William CastleOften described as ‘the Master of Gimmicks’, William Castle is best known for the outrageous publicity stunts that characterised his genre films in the 1950s and ‘60s, including offers for an insurance policy against death by...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Many Castles
- Part 1 The Early Castle
- 1 When Strangers Marry: Film Noir as Mediated Gothic
- 2 Gender in William Castle’s Westerns
- Part 2 The Gimmick Cycle
- 3 He Earned Our Forgiveness: William Castle and American Movie Showmanship
- 4 Collective Screams: William Castle and the Gimmick Film
- 5 Ghost Show Ballyhoo: Castle’s Macabre Will Scare You to Death
- 6 How to View 13 Ghosts
- 7 Chaos Made Flesh: Mr. Sardonicus (1961) and the Mask as Transformative Device
- Part 3 Castle, Authorship, and Genre
- 8 A Sick Mind in Search of a Monstrous Body: William Castle and the Emergence of Psychological Horror in the 1960s
- 9 “What a Wicked Game to Play?” Playfulness, Generic Hybridity, and Cult Appeal in Castle’s 1960s Films
- 10 “Where Did Our Love Go?” The Case of William Castle’s The Night Walker
- Part 4 Castle’s Legacy
- 11 Homo/cidal: William Castle’s 1960s Killer Queers
- 12 The Cinematic Pandemonium of William Castle and John Waters
- Index