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Hammer Films' Psychological Thrillers, 1950-1972

Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476604215
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Hammer Films' Psychological Thrillers, 1950-1972 written by David Huckvale and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hammer Film's is justly famous for Gothic horror but the company also excelled in the psychological thriller. Influenced by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Alfred Hitchcock, Hammer created its own approach to this genre in some of the company's very best films. This book takes a chronological, film-by-film approach to all of Hammer's thrillers. Well-known classics such as Seth Holt's The Nanny (1965) and Taste of Fear (1961) are discussed, together with less well known but equally brilliant films such as The Full Treatment (dir. Val Guest, 1960) and Michael Carreras' Maniac (1963). The films' literary ancestry, reflection of British society and relation to psychological theories of Freud and Jung, architectural metaphor, sexuality, religion, and even Nazi atrocities are all fully explored.

Hammer Films' Psychological Thrillers, 1950-1972

Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786474718
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Hammer Films' Psychological Thrillers, 1950-1972 written by David Huckvale and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hammer Film's is justly famous for Gothic horror but the company also excelled in the psychological thriller. Influenced by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Alfred Hitchcock, Hammer created its own approach to this genre in some of the company's very best films. This book takes a chronological, film-by-film approach to all of Hammer's thrillers. Well-known classics such as Seth Holt's The Nanny (1965) and Taste of Fear (1961) are discussed, together with less well known but equally brilliant films such as The Full Treatment (dir. Val Guest, 1960) and Michael Carreras' Maniac (1963). The films' literary ancestry, reflection of British society and relation to psychological theories of Freud and Jung, architectural metaphor, sexuality, religion, and even Nazi atrocities are all fully explored.

The Encyclopedia of Hammer Films

Author : Chris Fellner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538126591
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Hammer Films written by Chris Fellner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work contains entries on every film made by Hammer Films, a British studio renowned for its horror films of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. In addition, entries on people—directors, writers, producers, etc.—who have worked with the studio, as well as the stars associated with the studio, notably Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.

Critical Readings on Hammer Horror Films

Author : Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040090044
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Readings on Hammer Horror Films by : Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

Download or read book Critical Readings on Hammer Horror Films written by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers close readings on Hammer’s cycle of horror films, analysing key films and placing particular emphasis on the narratives and themes present in the works discussed. Ranging from the studio’s first horror outing, The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (1935) to Hammer’s last contemporary film, Doctor Jekyll (2023), the collection celebrates cult-favourites such as The Quatermass Experiment, the films of Terence Fisher, to overlooked classics such as Captain Clegg or The Mummy franchise. This volume also delves into Hammer’s psychological thrillers, the studio’s venture into TV with Hammer’s House of Horrors, with theoretical frameworks varying from queer studies to postcolonial readings. This volume will appeal to scholars and students of film studies, international cinema, film history and horror studies.

Hammer Complete

Author : Howard Maxford
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476629145
Total Pages : 993 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Hammer Complete written by Howard Maxford and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think you know everything there is to know about Hammer Films, the fabled "Studio that Dripped Blood?" The lowdown on all the imperishable classics of horror, like The Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula and The Devil Rides Out? What about the company's less blood-curdling back catalog? What about the musicals, comedies and travelogues, the fantasies and historical epics--not to mention the pirate adventures? This lavishly illustrated encyclopedia covers every Hammer film and television production in thorough detail, including budgets, shooting schedules, publicity and more, along with all the actors, supporting players, writers, directors, producers, composers and technicians. Packed with quotes, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, credit lists and production specifics, this all-inclusive reference work is the last word on this cherished cinematic institution.

Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters

Author : Markus P.J. Bohlmann
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476619867
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters written by Markus P.J. Bohlmann and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps because of the wisdom received from our Romantic forbears about the purity of the child, depictions of children as monsters have held a tremendous fascination for film audiences for decades. Numerous social factors have influenced the popularity and longevity of the monster-child trope but its appeal is also rooted in the dual concepts of the child-like (innocent, angelic) and the childish (selfish, mischievous). This collection of fresh essays discusses the representation of monstrous children in popular cinema since the 1950s, with a focus on the relationship between monstrosity and “childness,” a term whose implications the contributors explore.

The Piano on Film

Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476643881
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Piano on Film written by David Huckvale and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early days of silent film accompaniment, the piano has played an integral part in the history of cinema. Film's fascination with the piano, both in soundtracks and onscreen as a status symbol and icon of popular romanticism, offers a revealing opportunity to chart the changing perception of the instrument. From Mozart to Elton John, this book surveys the cultural history of the piano through the instrument's cinematic functions. Composer biopics, such as A Song to Remember, romantic melodramas like the Liberace vehicle Sincerely Yours, and horror films such as The Hands of Orlac, along with animated cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry demonstrate just how pervasive the cinematic image of the piano once was during a period when the piano itself began its noticeable decline in everyday life. By examining these depictions of the piano onscreen, readers will begin to understand not only the decline of the piano but also the decline of the idealistic culture to which it gave birth in the nineteenth century.

Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark

Author : Annika Forkert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009337335
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark written by Annika Forkert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining analyses of modernist concert and stage music by Elisabeth Lutyens with those of her audio-visual scores, and contextualising Lutyens and Edward Clark's biographies within international developments in dodecaphonic music and music-making, this book will speak to a wide audience interested in British and European twentieth-century music.

Movie Magick

Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476633754
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Movie Magick written by David Huckvale and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Magick" as defined by Aleister Crowley is "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will." This book explores expressions of movie magick in classic occult films like Hammer's adaptation of Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out and modern occult revival movies. These films are inspired by the aesthetics of fin de siecle decadence, the symbolist writings of Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Wagnerian music drama, the Faust legend, the pseudo-science of theosophy, 1960s occult psychedelia, occult conspiracy theories and obscure aspects of animation.

Terrors of the Flesh

Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476640785
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Terrors of the Flesh written by David Huckvale and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horror and psychological denial of our mortality, along with the corruptibility of our flesh, are persistent themes in drama. Body horror films have intensified these themes in increasingly graphic terms. The aesthetic of body horror has its origins in the ideas of the Marquis de Sade and the existential philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, all of whom demonstrated that we have just cause to be anxious about our physical reality and its existence in the world. This book examines the relationship between these writers and the various manifestations of body horror in film. The most characteristic examples of this genre are those directed by David Cronenberg, but body horror as a whole includes many variations on the theme by other figures, whose work is charted here through eight categories: copulation, generation, digestion, mutilation, infection, mutation, disintegration and extinction.

Dirk Bogarde

Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476678030
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Dirk Bogarde written by David Huckvale and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English actor Dirk Bogarde dominated the films in which he starred. Exploring the tension between his matinee idol appeal and his own closeted sexuality, this book focuses on the wide variety of genres in which he worked, and the highly charged interaction between his life and his roles. Beginning with an expose of gay life in post-war Britain and his relationship with partner/manager, Anthony Forwood, each chapter explores Bogarde's performances by genre--his juvenile delinquent movies, his military roles, his contribution to Basil Dearden's overtly gay thriller Victim (1961), and his "outsider" roles in such films as The Servant (1963), The Fixer (1968) and Despair (1978). Bogarde's "camp" cinema, espionage thrillers and various roles as artists are also examined, along with the misogyny of the Doctor films and his later television work.

A Green and Pagan Land

Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476670501
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book A Green and Pagan Land written by David Huckvale and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features. The myth-inspired writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Algernon Blackwood, Aleister Crowley, Lord Dunsany and even Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows informed later British films and television dramas such as The Owl Service (1969-70), Blood on Satan's Claw (1971), The Wicker Man (1973), Excalibur (1981) and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). The author analyzes the evocative language and esthetics of landscapes in literature, film, television and music, and how "psycho-geography" is used to explore the influence of the past on the present.

Poe Evermore

Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147661721X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Poe Evermore written by David Huckvale and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Allan Poe exerted a profound influence on many aspects of 20th century culture, and continues to inspire composers, filmmakers, writers and artists. Popularly thought of as a “horror” writer, Poe was also a philosophical aesthete, a satirist, a hoaxer, a psychologist and a prophet of the anxieties and preoccupations of the modern world. Alphabetically arranged, this book explores Poe’s major works both in their own right and in terms of their impact on others, including Baudelaire, who translated his works into French; Debussy, Rachmaninoff and the Alan Parsons’ Project, who set them to music; Roger Corman, Federico Fellini and Jean Epstein, who interpreted his visions for film audiences; and television shows such as The Six Million Dollar Man and Time Tunnel, which borrowed his imagery (and, in the case of The Simpsons, sent it up). A wide range of other responses to his compelling Tales of Mystery and Imagination, his poetry and the theoretical writings, combine strongly to suggest that Poe’s legacy will indeed last forevermore.

The Occult Arts of Music

Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602050
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Occult Arts of Music written by David Huckvale and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-09-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occult traditions have inspired musical ingenuity for centuries. From the Pythagorean concept of a music of the spheres to the occult subculture of 20th-century pop and rock, music has often attempted to express mystical states of mind, cosmic harmony, the demonic and the divine--nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the music for films such as The Mephisto Waltz, The Devil Rides Out, Star Trek, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Omen and The Exorcist. This survey explores how such film music works and uncovers its origins in Pythagorean and Platonic ideas about the divine order of the universe and its essentially numerical/musical nature. Chapters trace the influence of esoteric Freemasonry on Mozart and Beethoven, the birth of "demonic" music in the 19th century with composers such as Weber, Berlioz and Liszt, Wagner's racial mysticism, Schoenberg's numerical superstition, the impact of synesthesia on art music and film, the effect of theosophical ideas on composers such as Scriabin and Holst, supernatural opera and ballet, fairy music and, finally, popular music in the 1960s and '70s.

British Thrillers, 1950-1979

Author : Franz Antony Clinton
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147664067X
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book British Thrillers, 1950-1979 written by Franz Antony Clinton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three decades following WWII are considered the golden age of the British thriller film. Newer characters like James Bond, along with established icons such as Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple and The Saint, all contributed to the era's bountiful array of cinematic mystery, danger, excitement and suspense. For the first time, the extensive output of British thrillers from 1950 to 1979 is covered in one volume. Themed chapters cover a total of 845 films including spy thrillers, mystery thrillers, psychological thrillers, action-adventure thrillers, and crime thrillers. Within these chapters, films appear chronologically, each with a synopsis/review. Additional information provided for each film includes production companies and alternate British and U.S. titles, and the work includes eight useful appendices.

The A to Z of Horror Cinema

Author : Peter Hutchings
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810870509
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of Horror Cinema written by Peter Hutchings and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror is one of the most enduring and controversial of all cinematic genres. Horror films range from the subtle and the poetic to the graphic and the gory but what links them all is their ability to frighten, disturb, shock, provoke, delight, irritate, amuse, and bemuse audiences. Horror's capacity to serve as an outlet to capture the changing patterns of our fears and anxieties has ensured not only its notoriety but also its long-term survival and its international popularity. Above all, however, it is the audience's continual desire to experience new frights and evermore-horrifying sights that continue to make films like The Exorcist, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, Ringu, and The Shining captivate viewers. The A to Z of Horror Cinema traces the development of horror cinema from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries. Entries cover all the major movie villains, including Frankenstein and his monster, the vampire, the werewolf, the mummy, the zombie, the ghost, and the serial killer; the film directors, producers, writers, actors, cinematographers, make-up artists, special effects technicians, and composers who have helped to shape horror history; significant production companies and the major films that have come to stand as milestones in the development of the horror genre; and the different national traditions in horror cinema as well as horror's most popular themes, formats, conventions, and cycles.

Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema

Author : Peter Hutchings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema written by Peter Hutchings and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema traces the development of the genre from its beginnings to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries.