The second in a two-volume set, this volume presents horror fans with a treasure trove of context, facts and trivia from every Hollywood horror movie produced during the second wave of screen scares (1940-1946). A total of 113 films are analy...Daugiau...
Learn yet more about Hollywoods horror and science fiction classics (and classic schlock) in Tom Weavers 13th compilation of confrontations with their makers: writers, producers, directors, actors and more. The movies under discussion range f...Daugiau...
A National Medal of Arts winner, Mel Brooks has kept us in stitches for 70 years, laughing at the human condition. Brooks is well known for his New York Jewish humor, but as Roger Ebert says, the engines that drive his comedy have rarely been notic...Daugiau...
Draculas pervasion of Western culture occurs at the intersection of emotive responses and sociocultural cues affecting his movie viewers. The psychohistoricist exploration of Draculas movie history in this book is drawn from that tensile dyna...Daugiau...
Clowns have always harbored a dark side, but with the proliferation of visual media platforms, their grotesque personas have taken center stage. A far cry from the jovial performers at childrens parties and circuses, clowns have become a stapl...Daugiau...
Audiovisual content has transformed significantly with technological advancements and the rise of new media. In addition to revitalizing older works by making them accessible to a broader audience, streaming platforms also create exclusive orig...Daugiau...
Flash Gordon, Flash Gordons Trip to Mars, and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, the most expensive and popular movie serials ever made, have been favorites of film buffs and comics fans for decades. The original 1936 ser...Daugiau...
Screen legend Peter Sellers first pratfalled onto the silver screen as the bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau in 1963 in The Pink Panther, the success of which helped to turn him into an international comedy superstar. Since then there...Daugiau...
Initially dismissed upon its release, Dracula A.D. 1972 has since evolved into a cult classic. This book, the first dedicated solely to the film, unpacks the reasons behind Draculas enduring appeal. It offers an in-depth analysis of the broader pol...Daugiau...
In a world of increasingly sophisticated AI, the relationship between creator and creation has shifted. Robot lovers coexist with humans, and the boundaries of emotion and consciousness are blurred. This book considers the fundamental challenge...Daugiau...
Unique among other books about Godzilla, this work concentrates on the original 1954 version of the film. It explores the subtler, culturally determined motives of its director, writers, and characters including ancient Japanese myth, Buddhism, Shin...Daugiau...
Film audiences are familiar with the term home invasion horror due to its common use by film critics, reviewers, and studios promoting releases, not to mention the prevalence and popularity of the narratives themselves. Despite this, surprisi...Daugiau...
The zombie remains a popular and versatile cultural figure in both the United States and countries around the world, but the living dead creatures of today have come a long way from the shambling corpses depicted by George A. Romero. While trad...Daugiau...
This exhaustively researched work, the first in a two-volume set, covers every film released during the first wave of Hollywood horror (1931-1939), for a total of 74 chilling entries containing important historical context, frightening facts...Daugiau...
Since public audiences were first introduced to the medium of film in 1895, the Catholic Church has sought to impose its will on the distribution and exhibition of movies. These activities include the fortnightly publication of the Segnalazioni...Daugiau...
This comprehensive filmography provides critical analyses and behind-the-scenes stories for 600 horror, science fiction and fantasy films from the 1960s. During those tumultuous years horror cinema flourished, proving as innovative and unpredic...Daugiau...
Since the times of ancient Greece, popular culture has entertained stories of artificial humans. Our modern fears about the otherness of androids and human replicants have much in common with fears of the Doppelganger, a mythological harbinge...Daugiau...
Director F.W. Murnaus Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, made in 1921, right after the devastating Spanish Flu pandemic, has become the ultimate cult classic among horror film buffs around the world. For years there was much speculation a...Daugiau...
Science fiction films and television programs about space travel have undergone a significant transformation since their inception. Contrasting the early depictions of small spaceship crews on exploratory missions, recent film and television po...Daugiau...
In the 1978 horror film classic Halloween, little Tommy Doyle asks his babysitter Laurie Strode what is the Boogeyman? This book answers this probing question by assessing the essential qualities that create the Boogeyman persona in Western popula...Daugiau...
