TY  - BOOK
AU  - DeGiglio-Bellemare,Mario
AU  - Ellbé,Charlie
AU  - Woofter,Kristopher
TI  - Recovering 1940s horror cinema: traces of a lost decade 
SN  - 978-1-4985-0379-2
U1  - 791.43616409044 23E
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Lanham, Boulder, New York [etc.]
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Horror films--United States--History  and criticism
KW  - Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century
N1  - Notes bibliogr; 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 Ellbé -- 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
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