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Author : Kevin Heffernan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822332159
DIVThe history of horror films and the horror film industry in the 1950s and 1960s./div
Author : Kevin Heffernan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822385554
The Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Tingler, the Mole People—they stalked and oozed into audiences’ minds during the era that followed Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein and preceded terrors like Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and Chucky (Child’s Play). Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold pulls off the masks and wipes away the slime to reveal how the monsters that frightened audiences in the 1950s and 1960s—and the movies they crawled and staggered through—reflected fundamental changes in the film industry. Providing the first economic history of the horror film, Kevin Heffernan shows how the production, distribution, and exhibition of horror movies changed as the studio era gave way to the conglomeration of New Hollywood. Heffernan argues that major cultural and economic shifts in the production and reception of horror films began at the time of the 3-d film cycle of 1953–54 and ended with the 1968 adoption of the Motion Picture Association of America’s ratings system and the subsequent development of the adult horror movie—epitomized by Rosemary’s Baby. He describes how this period presented a number of daunting challenges for movie exhibitors: the high costs of technological upgrade, competition with television, declining movie attendance, and a diminishing number of annual releases from the major movie studios. He explains that the production and distribution branches of the movie industry responded to these trends by cultivating a youth audience, co-producing features with the film industries of Europe and Asia, selling films to television, and intensifying representations of sex and violence. Shining through Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold is the delight of the true horror movie buff, the fan thrilled to find The Brain that Wouldn’t Die on television at 3 am.
Author : Bradley Schauer
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780819576606
Today, movie theaters are packed with audiences of all ages marveling to exciting science fiction blockbusters, many of which are also critically acclaimed. However, when the science fiction film genre first emerged in the 1950s, it was represented largely by exploitation horror films—lurid, culturally disreputable, and appealing to a niche audience of children and sci-fi buffs. How did the genre evolve from B-movie to blockbuster? Escape Velocity charts the historical trajectory of American science fiction cinema, explaining how the genre transitioned from eerie low-budget horror like It Came from Outer Space to art films like Slaughterhouse-Five, and finally to the extraordinary popularity of hits like E.T. Bradley Schauer draws on primary sources such as internal studio documents, promotional materials, and film reviews to explain the process of cultural, aesthetic, and economic legitimation that occurred between the 1950s and 1980s, as pulp science fiction tropes were adapted to suit the tastes of mainstream audiences. Considering the inescapable dominance of today's effects-driven blockbusters, Escape Velocity not only charts the history of science fiction film, but also gives an account of the origins of contemporary Hollywood.
Author : A. Grunzke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137469205
An exploration of how educational institutions have been portrayed in horror film, this book examines the way that scary movies have dealt with the issue of school violence, focusing on movies set in high schools, colleges, and summer camps.
Author : Mark David Ryan,Ben Goldsmith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319482996
This book provides coverage of the diversity of Australian film and television production between 2000 and 2015. In this period, Australian film and television have been transformed by new international engagements, the emergence of major new talents and a movement away with earlier films’ preoccupation with what it means to be Australian. With original contributions from leading scholars in the field, the collection contains chapters on particular genres (horror, blockbusters and comedy), Indigenous Australian film and television, women’s filmmaking, queer cinema, representations of history, Australian characters in non-Australian films and films about Australians in Asia, as well as chapters on sound in Australian cinema and the distribution of screen content. The book is both scholarly and accessible to the general reader. It will be of particular relevance to students and scholars of Anglophone film and television, as well as to anyone with an interest in Australian culture and creativity.
Author : Austin Fisher,Johnny Walker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628927467
The pervasive image of New York's 42nd Street as a hub of sensational thrills, vice and excess, is from where “grindhouse cinema,” the focus of this volume, stemmed. It is, arguably, an image that has remained unchanged in the mind's eye of many exploitation film fans and academics alike. Whether in the pages of fanzines or scholarly works, it is often recounted how, should one have walked down this street between the 1960s and the 1980s, one would have undergone a kaleidoscopic encounter with an array of disparate “exploitation” films from all over the world that were being offered cheaply to urbanites by a swathe of vibrant movie theatres. The contributors to Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond consider “grindhouse cinema” from a variety of cultural and methodological positions. Some seek to deconstruct the etymology of “grindhouse” itself, add flesh to the bones of its cadaverous history, or examine the term's contemporary relevance in the context of both media production and consumerism. Others offer new inroads into hitherto unexamined examples of exploitation film history, presenting snapshots of cultural moments that many of us thought we already knew.
Author : Eric Schaefer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822323745
A social and cultural history of exploitation films, which were produced on the fringes of Hollywood and often dealt with subjects forbidden by the Production Code.
Author : Su Holmes,Diane Negra
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826438553
A timely collection exploring the politics of female celebrity across a range of contemporary, historical, media and national contexts. >
Author : Pamela Robertson Wojcik
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813552293
American culture changed radically over the course of the 1960s, and the culture of Hollywood was no exception. The film industry began the decade confidently churning out epic spectacles and lavish musicals, but became flummoxed as new aesthetics and modes of production emerged, and low-budget youth pictures like Easy Rider became commercial hits. New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s tells the story of the final glory days of the studio system and changing conceptions of stardom, considering such Hollywood icons as Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman alongside such hallmarks of youth culture as Mia Farrow and Dustin Hoffman. Others, like Sidney Poitier and Peter Sellers, took advantage of the developing independent and international film markets to craft truly groundbreaking screen personae. And some were simply “famous for being famous,” with celebrities like Zsa Zsa Gabor and Edie Sedgwick paving the way for today’s reality stars.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Critical theory
ISBN : UCAL:B4927995
A journal of feminism and film theory.
Author : Richard Nowell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441143167
Scholars have consistently applied psychoanalytic models to representations of gender in early teen slasher films such as Black Christmas (1974), Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980) in order to claim that these were formulaic, excessively violent exploitation films, fashioned to satisfy the misogynist fantasies of teenage boys and grind house patrons. However, by examining the commercial logic, strategies and objectives of the American and Canadian independents that produced the films and the companies that distributed them in the US, Blood Money demonstrates that filmmakers and marketers actually went to extraordinary lengths to make early teen slashers attractive to female youth, to minimize displays of violence, gore and suffering and to invite comparisons to a wide range of post-classical Hollywood's biggest hits; including Love Story (1970), The Exorcist (1973), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease and Animal House (both 1978). Blood Money is a remarkable piece of scholarship that highlights the many forces that helped establish the teen slasher as a key component of the North American film industry's repertoire of youth-market product.
Author : Paul Coates
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780521384094
This interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century focuses on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras. The author explores the nature of expressionism, which is generally agreed to have ended with the advent of sound, and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman. In considering the possibility of homologies between the necessary silence of pre-sound cinema and the widespread modernist aspiration to an aesthetic of silence, Coates relates theories of the sublime, the uncanny, and the monstrous to his subject. He also reflects upon problems of representability and the morality of representation of events that took place during the Nazi era.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131533734
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UCSC:32106018289600
Author : Gary A. Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015080847711
American International released a tide of low-budget, sensationalistic films aimed at a young male audience, finding its greatest success in the horror genre. This is a comprehensive guide to AIP movies that are or have been available in home viewing formats such as DVD and VHS. A brief history of the company, which produced movies from the 1950s until the 1980s, is provided. Films are catalogued alphabetically and by decade, and representative films are analyzed in depth. AIP television and unfilmed projects are also covered, and numerous photographs complement the text.