Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the 1930s, Paperback - Christopher Workman

Reducere. DescriptionWith Universal's release of Dracula on Valentine's Day 1931, the horror film as we know it was born. The following decade saw first a ho...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the late 1800s, a scientist working for Thomas Alva Edison invented an easy-to-use motion picture camera. Soon, people all over the w...

Reducere. Chronology of Classic Horror Films: the 1930s is an affectionate, thoughtful, and sometimes provocative re-examination of virtually every American ...

Publisher: Crecy PublishingAuthor(s): Robert W. BerryIllustration(s): 3col.116mono.Number of pages: 52Collection: Classic MarquesPublication date: ...

This Companion explores an extensive range of 1930s authors, contexts, themes, and literary debates. Informed by current scholarly approaches and a...

Reducere. The result of a unique international collaborative investigation by Russian, French, and Swiss scholars into hundreds of private, unpublished diari...

Reducere. DescriptionJohn Kenneth Muir is back This time, the author of the acclaimed Horror Films of the 1970s turns his attention to 300 films from the 198...

From AC to Wolseley, this is the illustrated encyclopaedia of every make of British, European and American car sold in Britain during the 1930s.Pub...

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Reducere. During the Great Depression, young radicals centered in New York City developed a vision of and for America, molded by their understanding of recen...

Reducere. Think The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: The Lost Films turned over every stone and revealed every surprise known to man? Think again. ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1900, the Mississippi legislature appropriated funds to purchase approximately 4, 000 acres of farmland in Sunflower County, the hear...

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

Reducere. In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic c...

Examines how the music in Val Lewton's horror films enhanced the films' aesthetics and visual stylePublisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): ...

Reducere. During the Great Depression, a sense of total despair plagued the United States. Americans sought a convenient scapegoat and found it in the Mexica...

DescriptionFilms for the Colonies examines the British Government's use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence...

Reducere. DescriptionThe most comprehensive, all-inclusive look at the history and evolution of shot on video horror films. In 1982, "Boardinghouse" became t...

During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem, " as President Franklin Roosevelt declare...

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Reducere. In this book Carlos Clarens, author of Crime Movies (also available from Da Capo/Perseus), George Cukor, and many articles in film magazines, bring...

Reducere. DescriptionLong before the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 or Boris Karloff's film portrayal of "Imhotep" ten years later, legends of the Mum...

Reducere. Japanese film director Seijun Suzuki began his career making increasingly outrageous B movies for Nikkatsu Studios in the 1950s and 1960s (he was e...

Reducere. From 1891 to 1922, Texans burned an average of one person of color at the stake a year for three decades. These burnings typically featured carniva...

Reducere. Few writers can evoke such nightmarish visions as H. P. Lovecraft--and few of his stories are as chilling as these canonical tales of terror. "H. P...

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Reducere. Considering the singular focus and feel of Guest's documentary-style comedies, this book documents the method behind Guest's approach to writing an...

When an old church is torn down in the small Florida town of Toad Springs, a trunk full of stories written by the inhabitants in the 1930s is disco...

Reducere. A neighborhood won't let its residents forget the past. One taste draws two lovers into a nightmarish addiction. A harsh winter forces strange crea...

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Reducere. - Lovecraft's] dream fantasy works are as terrifying and haunting as his tales of horror and the macabre. A master craftsman, Lovecraft brings comp...

Nine spine-tingling stories from the creator of Sherlock HolmesMournful cries in an ice-bound sea, a potion that allows the user to commune with gh...

Reducere. The films of the New French Extremity have been reviled by critics but adored by fans and filmmakers. Known for graphically brutal depictions of se...