The Television Horrors Of Dan Curtis

Author : Jeff Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476675022

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The Television Horrors of Dan Curtis by Jeff Thompson Pdf

Before award-winning director Dan Curtis became known for directing epic war movies, he darkened the small screen with the horror genre's most famous soap opera, Dark Shadows, and numerous subsequent made-for-TV horror movies. This second edition serves as a complete filmography, featuring each of Curtis's four-dozen productions and 100 photographs. With the addition of new chapters on Dark Shadows, the author further explores the groundbreaking daytime television serial. Fans and scholars alike will find an exhaustive account of Curtis's work, as well as a new foreword from My Music producer Jim Pierson and an afterword from Dr. Mabuse director Ansel Faraj.

Author : Jeff Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 078643693X

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The Television Horrors of Dan Curtis by Jeff Thompson Pdf

The award-winning and innovative director Dan Curtis was known for helming epic war movies, but before that he darkened the small screen with the horror genre’s most famous soap opera. Curtis directed the groundbreaking daytime television serial Dark Shadows from 1966 to 1971 and then turned his lens to numerous made-for-TV horror movies. This book examines 16 horror films that Curtis produced, co-wrote, or directed, as well as the cultural impact of Dark Shadows and its various incarnations. The book features 69 photographs and a foreword by Jim Pierson of Dan Curtis Productions.

Author : Jeff Thompson
Publisher : Ideas Into Books Westview
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1628800968

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Nights of Dan Curtis by Jeff Thompson Pdf

The award-winning producer-director Dan Curtis could do it all-and did. This book provides an overview of all four dozen of Dan Curtis's productions, and features more than 100 photographs, a foreword by CHiPs star Larry Wilcox, a preface by My Music producer Jim Pierson, and an afterword by Doctor Mabuse director Ansel Faraj.

Author : Jeff Thompson
Publisher : Ideas Into Books Westview
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1935271601

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House of Dan Curtis by Jeff Thompson Pdf

The award-winning auteur producer-director Dan Curtis made television history with the epic miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, the horror movies The Night Stalker and Trilogy of Terror, and the cult-classic Gothic serial Dark Shadows. Curtis also generated a large body of work in the mystery genre. This book provides an overview of Dan Curtis's 40-year-long career, as well as an examination of 15 mysteries and crime dramas that Curtis produced, co-wrote, and/or directed, including Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisedon; Melvin Purvis, G-Man; The Kansas City Massacre; The Great Ice Rip-Off; Come Die with Me; and the UFO miniseries Intruders. Also included is information about more than 15 Dan Curtis productions that were planned but never produced. House of Dan Curtis features 73 photographs and a foreword by John Karlen, the Emmy Award-winning actor who co-starred on Dark Shadows and in 13 other projects from the production house of Dan Curtis.

Author : Jeff Thompson
Publisher : Ideas Into Books Westview
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Dark shadows (Television program : 1966-1971)
ISBN : 1628801883

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Nights of Dan Curtis, Second Edition by Jeff Thompson Pdf

The award-winning producer-director Dan Curtis could do it all-and did. The revised second edition of this book provides an overview of all four dozen of Dan Curtis's productions. Also included are rare photographs, factual "significa," and information about newer events in the world of Dark Shadows.

Author : Jeff Thompson
Publisher : Ideas Into Books Westview
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1628801891

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House of Dan Curtis, Second Edition by Jeff Thompson Pdf

The revised second edition of House of Dan Curtis features seventy-five photographs, new information about Master of Dark Shadows: The Gothic World of Dan Curtis, a preface by My Music producer Jim Pierson, and a foreword by James Storm, the Bold and the Beautiful star who first appeared in six projects from the production house of Dan Curtis.

Author : Lorna Jowett,Stacey Abbott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857724489

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TV Horror by Lorna Jowett,Stacey Abbott Pdf

Horror is a universally popular, pervasive TV genre, with shows like True Blood, Being Human, The Walking Dead and American Horror Story making a bloody splash across our television screens. This complete, utterly accessible, sometimes scary new book is the definitive work on TV horror. It shows how this most adaptable of genres has continued to be a part of the broadcast landscape, unsettling audiences and pushing the boundaries of acceptability. The authors demonstrate how TV Horror continues to provoke and terrify audiences by bringing the monstrous and the supernatural into the home, whether through adaptations of Stephen King and classic horror novels, or by reworking the gothic and surrealism in Twin Peaks and Carnivale. They uncover horror in mainstream television from procedural dramas to children's television and, through close analysis of landmark TV auteurs including Rod Serling, Nigel Kneale, Dan Curtis and Stephen Moffat, together with case studies of such shows as Dark Shadows, Dexter, Pushing Daisies, Torchwood, and Supernatural, they explore its evolution on television. This book is a must-have for those studying TV Genre as well as for anyone with a taste for the gruesome and the macabre.

Author : Vance Capley
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359379699

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MONSTER MAGAZINE NO.4 BUDGET EDITION by Vance Capley Pdf

Author : Douglas L. Howard,David Bianculli
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780815654476

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Television Finales by Douglas L. Howard,David Bianculli Pdf

Today more than ever, series finales have become cultural touchstones that feed watercooler fodder and Twitter storms among a committed community of viewers. While the final episodes of The Fugitive and M*A*S*H continue to rank among the highest rated broadcasts, more recent shows draw legions of binge-watching fans. Given the importance of finales to viewers and critics alike, Howard and Bianculli along with the other contributors explore these endings and what they mean to the audience, both in terms of their sense of narrative and as episodes that epitomize an entire show. Bringing together a veritable "who’s who" of television scholars, journalists, and media experts, including Robert Thompson, Martha Nochimson, Gary Edgerton, David Hinckley, Kim Akass, and Joanne Morreale, the book offers commentary on some of the most compelling and often controversial final episodes in television history. Each chapter is devoted to a separate finale, providing readers with a comprehensive survey of these watershed moments. Gathering a unique international lineup of journalists and media scholars, the book also offers readers an intriguing variety of critical voices and perspectives.

Author : Andrew J. Owens
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253053848

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Desire After Dark by Andrew J. Owens Pdf

Since the 1960s, the occult in film and television has responded to and reflected society's crises surrounding gender and sexuality. In Desire After Dark, Andrew J. Owens explores media where figures such as vampires and witches make use of their supernatural knowledge in order to queer what otherwise appears to be a normative world. Beginning with the global sexual revolutions of the '60s and moving decade by decade through "Euro-sleaze" cinema and theatrical hardcore pornography, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the popularity of New Age religions and witchcraft, and finally the increasingly explicit sexualization of American cable television, Owens contends that occult media has risen to prominence during the past 60 years as a way of exposing and working through cultural crises about queerness. Through the use of historiography and textual analyses of media from Bewitched to The Hunger, Owens reveals that the various players in occult media have always been well aware that non-normative sexuality constitutes the heart of horror's enduring appeal. By investigating vampirism, witchcraft, and other manifestations of the supernatural in media, Desire After Dark confirms how the queer has been integral to the evolution of the horror genre and its persistent popularity as both a subcultural and mainstream media form.

Author : Fraser A. Sherman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476611013

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Cyborgs, Santa Claus and Satan by Fraser A. Sherman Pdf

In the three decades since the first SF film produced for television—1968’s Shadow on the Land—nearly 600 films initially released to television have had science fiction, fantasy, or horror themes. Featuring superheroes, monsters, time travel, and magic, these films range from the phenomenal to the forgettable, from low-budget to blockbuster. Information on all such American releases from 1968 through 1998 is collected here. Each entry includes cast and credits, a plot synopsis, qualitative commentary, and notes of interest on aspects of the film. Appendices provide a list of other films that include some science fiction, horror, or fantasy elements; a film chronology; and a guide to alternate titles.

Author : Herman Wouk
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444779271

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The Winds of War by Herman Wouk Pdf

Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with THE WINDS OF WAR and continues in WAR AND REMEMBRANCE, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - the drama, the romance, the heroism and the tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very centre of the maelstrom.

Author : Patrick McCray
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-08
Category : Dark shadows (Television program : 1966-1971)
ISBN : 9798452157144

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The Dark Shadows Daybook by Patrick McCray Pdf

Rondo Award-winning website, The Collinsport Historical Society, presents this wide-ranging collection of essays, insights, and observations from its long-running column, The Dark Shadows Daybook. From the earliest episodes to speculation on the future of the franchise, author Patrick McCray celebrates the grand themes and iconic characters of Dark Shadows with a devout irreverence. Winner of the 2018 Rondo Award for Writer of the Year, Patrick McCray chronicles the unforgettable series by exploring its episodes in articles and asides, all originally written on the anniversary of their filming. With a new introduction by Emmy award-winning humorist, Dana Gould, The Dark Shadows Daybook is affectionate, spontaneous, and refreshingly raucous reading for fans of the series and anyone else looking to learn why Dark Shadows matters.

Author : John Kenneth Muir
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 1710 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476604169

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Terror Television by John Kenneth Muir Pdf

Although horror shows on television are popular in the 1990s thanks to the success of Chris Carter's The X-Files, such has not always been the case. Creators Rod Serling, Dan Curtis, William Castle, Quinn Martin, John Newland, George Romero, Stephen King, David Lynch, Wes Craven, Sam Raimi, Aaron Spelling and others have toiled to bring the horror genre to American living rooms for years. This large-scale reference book documents an entire genre, from the dawn of modern horror television with the watershed Serling anthology, Night Gallery (1970), a show lensed in color and featuring more graphic makeup and violence than ever before seen on the tube, through more than 30 programs, including those of the 1998-1999 season. Complete histories, critical reception, episode guides, cast, crew and guest star information, as well as series reviews are included, along with footnotes, a lengthy bibliography and an in-depth index. From Kolchak: The Night Stalker to Millennium, from The Evil Touch to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twin Peaks, Terror Television is a detailed reference guide to three decades of frightening television programs, both memorable and obscure.

Author : Dan Curtis
Publisher : Super Weight Loss Plan
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Weight loss
ISBN : 0975524372

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Dr. Dan's Super Weight Loss Plan by Dan Curtis Pdf