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Book Synopsis Paul Blaisdell, Monster Maker by : Randy Palmer
Download or read book Paul Blaisdell, Monster Maker written by Randy Palmer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Blaisdell was the man behind the monsters in such movies as The She Creature, Invasion of the Saucer Men, Not of This Earth, It! Terror from Beyond Space and many others. Working in primarily low-budget films, Blaisdell was forced to rely on greasepaint, guts and, most importantly, an unbounded imagination for his creations. From his inauspicious beginning through The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959), the construction of Blaisdell’s monsters and the making of the movies in which they appeared are fully detailed here. Blaisdell’s work in the early monster magazines of the 1960s is also covered.
Download or read book It Came from 1957 written by Rob Craig and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America in the 1950s was a cauldron of contradictions. Advances in technology chafed against a grimly conservative political landscape; the military-industrial complex ceaselessly promoted the "Communist menace"; young marrieds fled crumbling cities for artificial communities known as suburbs; and the corporate cipher known as "The Organization Man" was created, along with stifling images of women. The decade, huddled under the fear of nuclear holocaust, was also dedicated to all things futuristic. Science fiction was in its salad days, in magazines and novels and in motion pictures, trying every trick in the book to lure customers back from television, including reliance on monster movies. All of these forces collided in 1957, when an astounding 57 movies of the science fiction, horror and fantasy variety were shown in the United States--a record unmatched to this day. Reflecting some of the socio-political topics of the day, several are exceptional examples of their genres. This book critically discusses each of the films.
Book Synopsis The Battle for the Bs by : Blair Davis
Download or read book The Battle for the Bs written by Blair Davis and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of the double-bill in the 1930s created a divide between A-pictures and B-pictures as theaters typically screened packages featuring one of each. With the former considered more prestigious because of their larger budgets and more popular actors, the lower-budgeted Bs served largely as a support mechanism to A-films of the major studios—most of which also owned the theater chains in which movies were shown. When a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court antitrust ruling severed ownership of theaters from the studios, the B-movie soon became a different entity in the wake of profound changes to the corporate organization and production methods of the major Hollywood studios. In The Battle for the Bs, Blair Davis analyzes how B-films were produced, distributed, and exhibited in the 1950s and demonstrates the possibilities that existed for low-budget filmmaking at a time when many in Hollywood had abandoned the Bs. Made by newly formed independent companies, 1950s B-movies took advantage of changing demographic patterns to fashion innovative marketing approaches. They established such genre cycles as science fiction and teen-oriented films (think Destination Moon and I Was a Teenage Werewolf) well before the major studios and also contributed to the emergence of the movement now known as underground cinema. Although frequently proving to be multimillion-dollar box-office draws by the end of the decade, the Bs existed in opposition to the cinematic mainstream in the 1950s and created a legacy that was passed on to independent filmmakers in the decades to come.
Download or read book Cinefantastique written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fantastic Cinema Subject Guide by : Bryan Senn
Download or read book Fantastic Cinema Subject Guide written by Bryan Senn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1992 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 2,500 genre films are entered under more than 100 subject headings, ranging from abominable snowmen through dreamkillers, rats, and time travel, to zombies, with a brief essay on each topic: development, highlights, and trends. Each film entry shows year of release, distribution company, country of origin, director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, cast credits, plot synopsis and critical commentary.
Book Synopsis The Great Monster Magazines by : Bobb Cotter
Download or read book The Great Monster Magazines written by Bobb Cotter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-05-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides a critical overview of monster magazines from the 1950s to the 1970s. The term monster magazine is a blanket term, which, for the purposes of this study is used to describe both magazines that focus primarily on popular horror movies and magazines that contain stories featuring monsters which are illustrated in comic book style but printed in black and white.
Download or read book Tech-noir written by Paul Meehan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study traces the common origins of film noir and science fiction films, identifying the many instances in which the two have merged to form a distinctive subgenre known as Tech-Noir. From the German Expressionist cinema of the late 1920s to the present-day cyberpunk movement, the book examines more than 100 films in which the common noir elements of crime, mystery, surrealism, and human perversity intersect with the high technology of science fiction. The author also details the hybrid subgenre's considerable influences on contemporary music, fashion, and culture.
Download or read book We Belong Dead written by Gary J. Svehla and published by Midnight Marquee Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the Frankenstein Monster in film.
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Download or read book BFI Film and Television Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The British National Bibliography by : Arthur James Wells
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bowker's Complete Video Directory by :
Download or read book Bowker's Complete Video Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drums of Terror written by Bryan Senn and published by Midnight Marquee Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to chronicle, critique and explore every theatrically released, English-language voodoo movie to date. Admittedly, sometimes the stories behind a film's making prove more entertaining than the movie itself, but such are the hazards of the job. While some are good, many are bad and a few are downright ugly, most voodoo movies contain at least the promise (occasionally fulfilled, more often not) of a glimpse into an alternate world view and spirituality that can be both fascinating and unsettling. Films such White Zombie, I Walked With a Zombie, Macumba Love, I Eat Your Skin, Angel Heart and The Believers are included in this fascinating film history.
Download or read book Millennium Movies written by Kim Newman and published by Titan Books (UK). This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror by : Stephen Jones
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror written by Stephen Jones and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Contemporary Authors by : Scot Peacock
Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Scot Peacock and published by Contemporary Authors. This book was released on 1998 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors®. Authors in this volume include: Ira Gershwin Mother Teresa William Strunk, Jr. Thomas Wiloch
Book Synopsis Herschell Gordon Lewis, Godfather of Gore by : Randy Palmer
Download or read book Herschell Gordon Lewis, Godfather of Gore written by Randy Palmer and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is Lewis's complete story - rich, authentic, and hilariously told through extensive interviews with the filmmaker himself."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Roger Corman written by Mark Thomas McGee and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best remembered for his 60s Vincent Price/Edgar Allan Poe films and other cult classics, Corman dabbed in anything for a quick buck. But his films were often highly innovative and exciting. Each is covered here in depth; a biography of Corman is included, along with bios of his stock players--all profusely illustrated.
