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Author : Antonio Lázaro-Reboll,Ian Olney
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814343173
The first edited volume devoted to the legendary cult director Jess Franco.
Author : Kristofer Todd Upjohn
Publisher : Stark House Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1944520600
Jess Franco was a Spanish director, cinematographer, writer, composer, editor, producer and actor in more than 150 fiercely independent films he made from 1959 to 2013. Kristofer Upjohn celebrates Franco in a collection of essays that examines his individual movies for the first time.
Author : Stephen Thrower,Julian Grainger
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781907222917
Forthcoming from the MIT Press
Author : David Kalat
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476601076
The Mabuse phenomenon is recognized as an icon of horror in Germany as Frankenstein and Dracula are in the United States. A study of the 12 motion pictures and five books (and some secondary films) that make up the eight decades of adventures of master criminal Mabuse, created by author Norbert Jacques in the best-selling 1922 German novel and brought to the screen by master filmmaker Fritz Lang in the same year. Both on screen and off, the story of Dr. Mabuse is a story of love triangles and revenge, of murder, suicides, and suspicious deaths, of betrayals and paranoia, of fascism and tyranny, deceptions and conspiracies, mistaken identities, and transformation. This work, featuring much information never before published in English, provides an understanding of a modern mythology whose influence has pervaded popular culture even while the name Mabuse remains relatively unknown in the United States.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Erotic films
ISBN : 392923405X
Author : Tatjana Pavlovic
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780791487693
Examines crucial moments of transition in Spanish culture and society during both dictatorship and democracy.
Author : Nicholas G. Schlegel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442251168
From 1968 to 1977, Spain experienced a boom in horror-movie production under a restrictive economic system established by the country’s dictator, Francisco Franco. Despite hindrance from the Catholic Church and Spanish government, which rigidly controlled motion picture content, hundreds of horror films were produced during this ten-year period. This statistic is even more remarkable when compared with the output of studios and production companies in the United States and elsewhere at the same time. What accounts for the staggering number of films, and what does it say about Spain during this period? In Sex, Sadism, Spain, and Cinema: The Spanish Horror Film, Nicholas G. Schlegel looks at movies produced, distributed, and exhibited under the crumbling dictatorship of General Franco. The production and content of these films, the author suggests, can lead to a better understanding of the political, social, and cultural conditions during a contentious period in Spain’s history. The author addresses the complex factors that led to the “official” sanctioning of horror films—which had previously been banned—and how they differed from other popular genres that were approved and subsidized by the government. In addition to discussing the financing and exhibiting of these productions, the author examines the tropes, conventions, iconography, and thematic treatments of the films. Schlegel also analyzes how these movies were received by audiences and critics, both in Spain and abroad. Finally, he looks at the circumstances that led to the rapid decline of such films in the late 1970s and early 1980s. By examining how horror movies thrived in Spain during this decade, this book addresses a sorely neglected gap in film scholarship and also complements existing literature on Spanish national cinema. Sex, Sadism, Spain, and Cinema will appeal to fans of horror films as well as scholars of film history, European history, genre studies, and cultural studies.
Author : Jack Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Cult films
ISBN : 1902588290
Pornodelic Pleasures is an illustrated document of the films of Jess Franco, the European cult director best-known for his lurid depictions of sex, obsession and horror with over 350 photographs and posters, more than 150 full-colour pages, a new introductory essay on Franco's career and work and a complete illustrated filmography. In the continued absence of a comprehensive critical evaluation of Franco's work, the book serves stimulating introduction to the world of one of cinema's most enduring and original visionaries.
Author : Antonio Lazaro-Reboll
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748670628
An original new study of Spanish horror film.
Author : David Hinds
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781909394247
May 1968. Paris is awash with violence and public unrest. In a small cinema, where a surreal film is showing, another riot is taking place. Here, the enraged audience smashes up the auditorium, tear out the seats, and chase the film’s director onto the street. This is the premiere of Jean Rollin’s feature debut, The Rape of the Vampire. An outsider of French cinema, Rollin’s films are unique and dreamlike. They offer tales of mystery and nostalgia, obsolescence and seductive female vampires with a thirst for blood and sex. It is a cinema at once strange, evocative and deeply personal. Funding his own projects, Rollin defiantly made the films he wanted to make and in so doing created a fantastique genre unlike any other. The Nude Vampire, The Living Dead Girl and The Grapes of Death are among those films now celebrated as the work of an auteur, one who confounds preconceived notions of ‘Eurotrash’ cinema. This book is devoted to the director and all his work, across all genres, including a nascent French hardcore pornographic film industry. Written with full co-operation from Jean Rollin, shortly before his death in 2010, it contains exclusive interviews and archive material.
Author : Tom Johnson,Mark A. Miller
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476608969
The career of Christopher Lee has stretched over half a century in every sort of film from comedy to horror and in such diverse roles as the Man With the Golden Gun, Frankenstein's monster, Fu Manchu and Sherlock Holmes. From Corridor of Mirrors in 1948 to Star Wars: Episode II-Attack of the Clones in 2002, this reference book covers 166 theatrical feature films: all production information, full cast and crew credits, a synopsis, and a critical analysis, with a detailed account of its making and commentary drawn from some thirty hours of interviews with Lee himself. Two appendices list Lee's television feature films and miniseries and his short films. The work concludes with an afterword by Christopher Lee himself. Photographs from the actor's private collection are included.
Author : John Edgar Browning,Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786462018
This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the world's most famous vampire, with more than 700 citations of domestic and international Dracula films, television programs, documentaries, adult features, animated works, and video games, as well as nearly a thousand comic books and stage adaptations. While they vary in length, significance, quality, genre, moral character, country, and format, each of the cited works adopts some form of Bram Stoker's original creation, and Dracula himself, or a recognizable vampiric semblance of Dracula, appears in each. The book includes contributions from Dacre Stoker, David J. Skal, Laura Helen Marks, Dodd Alley, Mitch Frye, Ian Holt, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, and J. Gordon Melton.
Author : Bryan Senn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476610900
This eclectic overview of horror cinema offers up a collection of horror films for practically any occasion and literally every day of the year. For example, the author recommends commemorating United Nations Day (October 24) with a screening of The Colossus of New York, whose startling climax takes place at the U.N. Building. Each day-by-day entry includes the movie title, production year, plot summary and critique, along with a brief explanation of how the film fits into the history of that particular day and interesting anecdotes on the film’s production.
Author : Louis Paul
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786484027
From movie villains to scream queens, here are interviews with 36 actors and actresses familiar to fans of sixties and seventies cult cinema. Interviewees include the well-known (David Carradine, Christopher Lee), the relatively obscure (Marrie Lee), sex symbols (Valerie Leon), surfers who became movie stars (Don Stroud), and action heroes (Fred Williamson), among many others. Each interview is accompanied by a biography and filmography.
Author : David Pirie
Publisher : London : Gordon Fraser
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015007037602