Hollywood horror
Hollywood horror: from gothic to cosmic Mark A. Vieira
Publisher: New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
ISBN: 0810945355
DDC: 791.436164
LCC: PN1995.9
Edition: (hardcover)
Summary:
"The horror film, which author Mark A. Vieira calls "the escape valve
of the American psyche," is forever imprinted on our popular culture.
Celebrating an ever-popular and enduring cinematic genre populated
with vampires, mummies, zombies, werewolves, sinister scientists,
aliens, and psychopaths, Hollywood Horror is an entertaining
narrative and pictorial history of the classic American monster movie
from the silent era to 1968.".
"Illustrated with 260 pristine still photographs - many never before
published - culied from 160 films, the book captures all the mystery,
power, dark humor, and chilling beauty of cinematic horror. Among the
featured films are seminal icons such as James Whale's Frankenstein
and Tod Browning's Dracula; the steamy pre-Code jungle sorcery of The
Island of the Lost Souls; big-budget thrillers like The Uninvited and
The Picture of Dorian Gray; the cold-war science fiction of The
Invasion of the Body Snatchers; sublimely ridiculous "creature
features" such as The Blob, and terrifying thrillers like Hitchcock's
Psycho."--BOOK JACKET.
Frames of evil
(Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart and David A. Frank; with a foreword by Dominick LaCapra and an introduction by Edward J. Ingebretsen; ISBN: 0809327236;
(cloth : alk. paper); 100% match)
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Frames of evil
(Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart and David A. Frank; with a foreword by Dominick LaCapra and an introduction by Edward J. Ingebretsen; ISBN: 0809327244;
(pbk. : alk. paper); 100% match)
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