Recovering 1940s horror cinema
Subtitle: traces of a lost decade
By: edited by Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Charlie Ellbé, and Kristopher Woofter
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9781498503792; 9781498503808
Subjects: Horror films; History  and criticism; Motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: fragments of the monster  "recovering a lost decade" / Mario Degiglio-Bellemare, Kristopher Woofter; title: Image: motion picture purgatory: The devil bat (1940) / Rick Trembles; title: Interventions. A "Darkly hypothetical reality": "Gothic realism" in 1940s Hollywood horror / Kristopher Woofter; title: "Strange pleasure": 1940s proto-slasher cinema / Peter Marra; title: Dead zone: genre, gender, and the "lost decade" of horror cinema, 1946-56 /  Ian Olney; title: Val Lewton, Mr. Gross, and the Grand-Guignol: re-staging the corpse in The body snatcher / Mario Degiglio-Bellemare; title: Hybridity. Robert Siodmak's The spiral staircase: horror genre hybridity, vertical alterity and the avant-garde / Anne Golden; title: The child witness: peril and empowerment in 1940s horror, from The East Side kids to The window / Kier-la Janisse; title: Making visible the sonic threat: the Inner Sanctum Mysteries radio series and its Universal Studios film adaptations / Charlie Ellbé; title: Poe, horror, and the cinematic mystery hybrids of the 1940s / Dennis R. Perry; title: "The murderer's mind": Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and the monstrous psychologies of 1940s horror film / Mark Jancovich; title: History. Serial killers, deals with the devil and the madness of crowds: the horror film in Nazi-occupied France / David Hanley; title: "Always hearing voices, never hearing mine": sound and fury in The snake pit / Karen Herland; title: The demise of the cinematic zombie: from the golden age of Hollywood to the 1940s / Louise Fenton; title: Fears new and old: the post-war American horror film / Gary D. Rhodes; title: Poverty row. Hypodermic needles and evil twins: the poverty row wartime horrors of Sam Newfield / Paul Corupe; title: Of apes and men (and monsters and girls): the ape film and 1940s horror cinema / Blair Davis; title: The perfect Neanderthal man: Rondo Hatton as The creeper and the cultural economy of 1940s B-movies / Cory Legassic; title: The vampire's ghost: the case for a poverty row horror classic / Selma A. Purac.