Icons of grief
Subtitle: Val Lewton's home front pictures
By: Alexander Nemerov.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Lewton, Val -- Criticism and interpretation.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war.
Other titles: Val Lewton and the home front
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Madonna of the back yard : Simone Simon and Ann Carter in The curse of the cat people; title: The power of the minor actor : Skelton Knaggs in The ghost ship; title: Stillness and recollection : Darby Jones in I walked with a zombie; title: This pretty world : Glenn Vernon in Bedlam.