Shock Theatre Chicago Style

Author : Donald F. Glut
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786468058

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Shock Theatre Chicago Style by Donald F. Glut Pdf

From December 1957 through October 1959, Chicago TV viewers were held in thrall by "Marvin," the ghoulishly hilarious host of WBKB-TV's late-night horror film series Shock Theatre. Marvin and his lady friend "Dear" (her face ever hidden from the camera) introduced thousands of Chicagoland youngsters to such classic Universal chillers as Frankenstein, Dracula and The Wolf Man. This history of Shock Theatre focuses on the series and its creator, Marvin himself--in real life, the multi-talented Terry Bennett, whose wife Joy played "Dear." Terry's son Kerry Bennett provides an affectionate foreword, while celebrated horror host Count Gore De Vol (Dick Dyszel) supplies the afterword. Included are dozens of photos and vintage advertisement reproductions, as well as two appendices featuring a resume of Terry Bennett's career and a list of films telecast during his two-year Shock Theatre run.

Author : Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476626567

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Vampira and Her Daughters by Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter Pdf

From Vampira to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, female horror movie hosts have long been a staple of late-night television. Broadcast on local stations and cable access channels, characters such as Moona Lisa, Stella, Crematia Mortem and Tarantula Ghoul brought an entertaining blend of macabre camp and after-prime-time sexuality to American living rooms in the 1950s through 1990s. Despite a near total lack of local programming today, the tradition continues on the Internet and Roku and other modern media. Featuring exclusive interviews and rare photographs, this book covers dozens of “dream ghouls” with alphabetical entries, from Aunt Gertie to Veronique Von Venom.

Author : Ted Okuda,Mark Yurkiw
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809335381

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Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows by Ted Okuda,Mark Yurkiw Pdf

Originally published: Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 2007.

Author : Bruce Markusen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476684611

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Hosted Horror on Television by Bruce Markusen Pdf

In October 1957, Screen Gems made numerous horror movies available to local television stations around the country as part of a package of films called Shock Theater. These movies became a huge sensation with TV viewers, as did the horror hosts who introduced the films and offered insight--often humorous--into the plots, the actors, and the directors. This history of hosted horror walks readers through the best TV horror films, beginning with the 1930s black-and-white classics from Universal Studios and ending with the grislier color films of the early 1970s. It also covers and explores the horror hosts who presented them, some of whom faded into obscurity while others became iconic within the genre.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCSD:31822037943214

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The Writers Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Arena
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786488919

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Fright Night on Channel 9 by James Arena Pdf

From 1973 to 1987, Fright Night was a fixture of the late Saturday evening schedule on independent New York television station WOR-TV. A genre fan's nightmare come true, the modestly produced showcase featured horror films both classic and obscure, from Universal's Frankenstein series to such lesser-known delights as Beast of Blood and The Living Coffin. Fright Night suffered no delusions of grandeur and never claimed to be anything more than what it was: great entertainment on a Saturday night. This thorough if affectionate tribute to Fright Night's glory days includes a complete listing of all films shown on the series, as well as discussion of WOR-TV's other horror movie programs from the 1970s and 1980s. Also featured are interviews with the major surviving players, including Fright Night creator Lawrence P. Casey.

Author : Elena M. Watson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786409401

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Television Horror Movie Hosts by Elena M. Watson Pdf

Midnight, 1954. A striking woman in a torn black dress slinks down a cobwebbed, candelabra'd corridor. She stops, shrieks hysterically into the camera, then solemnly says, "Good evening, I am Vampira." Her real name is Maila Nurmi and she was the first in a long line of television horror movie hosts, commonly seen on independent stations' late-night "grade Z" offerings dressed as some zany ghoul or mad scientist. This book covers the major hosts in detail, along with styles and show themes. Merchandise tie-in and fan reactions are also chronicled. The appendices list film and record credits.

Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307371300

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The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein Pdf

From the bestselling author of No Logo—the gripping story of how America’s “free market” polices exploited crises and shock for three decades from Pinochet’s coup in Chile in 1973 to the "War on Terror." In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of one the most dominant ideologies of our time: Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.

Author : Tracy Letts
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810123489

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Bug by Tracy Letts Pdf

This dark comedy takes place in a seedy motel room outside Oklahoma City, where Agnes, a drug-addled cocktail waitress, is hiding from her ex-con ex-husband. Her lesbian biker friend R.C. introduces her to Peter, a handsome drifter who might be an AWOL Gulf War veteran. They soon begin a relationship that takes place almost entirely within the increasingly claustrophobic confines of her motel room. Peter begins to rant about the war in Iraq, UFOs, the Oklahoma City bombings, cult suicides, and then secret government experiment on soldiers, of which he believes he is a victim. His delusions infect Agnes and the tension mounts as mysterious strangers appear at their door, past events haunt them at every turn and they are attacked by real bugs. Tracy Letts's tale of love, paranoia, and government conspiracy is a thought-provoking psycho-thriller that mixes terror and laughter at a fever pitch.

Author : Neil Verma
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780226853529

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Theater of the Mind by Neil Verma Pdf

For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a “theater of the mind.” This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In Theater of the Mind, Neil Verma applies an array of critical methods to more than six thousand recordings to produce a vivid new account of radio drama from the Depression to the Cold War. In this sweeping exploration of dramatic conventions, Verma investigates legendary dramas by the likes of Norman Corwin, Lucille Fletcher, and Wyllis Cooper on key programs ranging from The Columbia Workshop, The Mercury Theater on the Air, and Cavalcade of America to Lights Out!, Suspense, and Dragnet to reveal how these programs promoted and evolved a series of models of the imagination. With close readings of individual sound effects and charts of broad trends among formats, Verma not only gives us a new account of the most flourishing form of genre fiction in the mid-twentieth century but also presents a powerful case for the central place of the aesthetics of sound in the history of modern experience.

Author : Donald F. Glut
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039585216

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The Frankenstein Catalog by Donald F. Glut Pdf

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007358298

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Sacrament by Clive Barker Pdf

A famous photographer lying in a coma holds the key to the salvation of the world. But first he must travel back into the traumatic events of his childhood.

Author : Synnøve Des Bouvrie
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : 8763545950

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Tragic Workings in Euripides' Drama by Synnøve Des Bouvrie Pdf

Tragic Workings in Euripides? Drama' offers a substantially new theory and method for understanding Attic tragedy. Starting from anthropological insights, and drawing on Aristotle?s theory of the specific ?tragic? reactions of ?shock and horror? as well as his propositions on the ?tragic? violation of fundamental social values, Des Bouvrie argues that the participating community in fifth-century Greece, for instance at the Dionysia, the Athenian dramatic festival, assembled as a collective body engaging in a program of ?prescribed sentiments.? She identifies this program as a ?tragic process? that mobilized the audience into revitalizing their institutional order, the unquestionable values sustaining the oikos and preserving the polis.00Des Bouvrie?s novel, not to say revolutionary, and explicitly ?anthropological? approach, consists in focusing primarily on the ?tragic workings? of Attic tragedy. While Euripides is singled out ? with astute readings of Heracleidae, Andromache, Hecuba, Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia in Tauris and Iphigenia at Aulis on offer - the author?s earlier work on other Greek tragedians suggests that these features were operating in the genre as such. For students and scholars interested in ancient Greek tragedy, this volume constitutes a remarkable contribution. It will significantly further studies of the tragic genre as well as stimulate new debate.

Author : Barry Singer
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1557835292

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Ever After by Barry Singer Pdf

A detailed show-by-show history of the last quarter century in American musical theater that attempts to explain how the storied Broadway tradition went so very wrong in many cases.

Author : Nat Cassidy,Mac Rogers
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250172631

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Steal the Stars by Nat Cassidy,Mac Rogers Pdf

Steal the Stars, a debut novel by Nat Cassidy, is based on the science fiction podcast from Tor Labs, written by Mac Rogers. Dakota “Dak” Prentiss guards the biggest secret in the world. They call it “Moss.” It’s your standard grey alien from innumerable abduction stories. It still sits at the controls of the spaceship it crash-landed eleven years ago. A secret military base was built around the crash site to study both Moss and the dangerous technology it brought to Earth. The day Matt Salem joins her security team, Dak’s whole world changes. It’s love at first sight—which is a problem, since they both signed ironclad contracts vowing not to fraternize with other military personnel. If they run, they’ll be hunted for what they know. Dak and Matt have only way to be together: do the impossible. Steal Moss and sell the secret of its existence. And they can’t afford a single mistake. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.