Twice The Thrills Twice The Chills

Author : Bryan Senn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476635712

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"Twice the Thrills! Twice the Chills!" by Bryan Senn Pdf

In the mid-1950s, to combat declining theater attendance, film distributors began releasing pre-packaged genre double-bills--including many horror and science fiction double features. Though many of these films were low-budget and low-end, others, such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Horror of Dracula and The Fly, became bona fide classics. Beginning with Universal-International's 1955 pairing of Revenge of the Creature and Cult of the Cobra, 147 officially sanctioned horror and sci-fi double-bills were released over a 20-year period. This book presents these double features year-by-year, and includes production details, historical notes, and critical commentary for each film.

Author : Bryan Senn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476668949

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"Twice the Thrills! Twice the Chills!" by Bryan Senn Pdf

In the mid-1950s, to combat declining theater attendance, film distributors began releasing pre-packaged genre double-bills--including many horror and science fiction double features. Though many of these films were low-budget and low-end, others, such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Horror of Dracula and The Fly, became bona fide classics. Beginning with Universal-International's 1955 pairing of Revenge of the Creature and Cult of the Cobra, 147 officially sanctioned horror and sci-fi double-bills were released over a 20-year period. This book presents these double features year-by-year, and includes production details, historical notes, and critical commentary for each film.

Author : Mark A. Miller,David J. Hogan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476638423

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Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema by Mark A. Miller,David J. Hogan Pdf

From their first pairing in Hamlet (1948) to House of the Long Shadows (1983), British film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing forged perhaps the most successful collaboration in horror film history. In its revised and expanded second edition, this volume examines their 22 movie team-ups, with critical commentary, complete cast and credits, production information, details on cinematography and make-up, exhibition history and box-office figures. A wealth of background about Hammer, Amicus and other production companies is provided, along with more than 100 illustrations. Lee and Cushing describe particulars of their partnership in original interviews. Exclusive interviews with Robert Bloch, Hazel Court and nearly fifty other actors, directors and others who worked on the Lee-Cushing films are included.

Author : Bryan Senn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476672199

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Ski Films by Bryan Senn Pdf

Skiing in movies, like the sport itself, grew more prevalent beginning in the 1930s, when it was a pastime of the elite, with depictions reflecting changes in technique, fashion and social climate. World War II saw skiing featured in a dozen films dealing with that conflict. Fueled by postwar prosperity, the sport exploded in the 1950s--filmmakers followed suit, using scenes on snow-covered slopes for panoramic beauty and the thrill of the chase. Through the free-spirited 1960s and 1970s, the downhill lifestyle shussed into everything from spy thrillers to beach party romps. The extreme sports era of the 1980s and 1990s brought snowboarding to the big screen. This first ever critical history of skiing in film chronicles a century of alpine cinema, with production information and stories and quotes from directors, actors and stuntmen.

Author : Bryan Senn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476650524

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Mummy Movies by Bryan Senn Pdf

In 1932, The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff, introduced another icon to the classic monster pantheon, beginning a journey down the cinematic Nile that has yet to reach its end. Over the past century, movie mummies have met everyone from Abbott and Costello to Tom Cruise, not to mention a myriad of fellow monsters. Horrifying and mysterious, the mummy comes from a different time with uncommon knowledge and unique motivation, offering the lure of the exotic as well as the terrors of the dark. From obscure no-budgeters to Hollywood blockbusters, the mummy has featured in films from all over the globe, including Brazil, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, and even its fictional home country of Egypt--with each film bringing its own cultural sensibilities. Movie mummies have taken the form of teenagers, superheroes, dwarves, kung fu fighters, Satanists, cannibals and even mummies from outer space. Some can fly, some are sexy, some are scary and some are hilarious, and mummies quickly moved beyond horror cinema and into science fiction, comedy, romance, sexploitation and cartoons. From the Universal classics to the Aztec Mummy series, from Hammer's versions to Mexico's Guanajuato variations, this first-ever comprehensive guide to mummy movies offers in-depth production histories and critical analyses for every feature-length iteration of bandaged horror.

Author : Rob Young
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571284610

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The Magic Box by Rob Young Pdf

A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEAR A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait in technicolour detail. 'The definition of gripping. Truly, a trove of wyrd treasures.' BENJAMIN MYERS 'A lovingly researched history of British TV [that] recalls the brilliant, the bizarre and the unworldly.' GUARDIAN 'A reclamation, not just of a visual 'golden age', but of Britain as a darkly magical place.' THE SPECTATOR 'A feat of argument, description and affection.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Young unearths the ghosts of TV past - and Britain's dark psyche.' HERALD 'Highly entertaining . . . [A] fabulous treasure trove.' SCOTSMAN 'Young is a phenomonal scholar.' OBSERVER 'Impassioned.' THE CRITIC Growing up in the 1970s, Rob Young's main storyteller was the wooden box with the glass window in the corner of the family living room, otherwise known as the TV set. Before the age of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, YouTube and commercial streaming services, watching television was a vastly different experience. You switched on, you sat back and you watched. There was no pause or fast-forward button. The cross-genre feast of moving pictures produced in Britain between the late 1950s and late 1980s - from Quatermass and Tom Jones to The Wicker Man and Brideshead Revisited, from A Canterbury Tale and The Go-Between to Bagpuss and Children of the Stones, and from John Betjeman's travelogues to ghost stories at Christmas - contributed to a national conversation and collective memory. British-made sci-fi, folk horror, period drama and televisual grand tours played out tensions between the past and the present, dramatised the fractures and injustices in society and acted as a portal for magical and ghostly visions. In The Magic Box, Rob Young takes us on a fascinating journey into this influential golden age of screen and discovers what it reveals about the nature and character of Britain, its uncategorisable people and buried histories - and how its presence can still be felt on screen in the twenty-first century. '[A] forensic dissection . . . this tightly packed treatise takes pains to illustrate how what we view affects how we view ourselves.' TOTAL FILM

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476647395

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Spoofing the Vampire by Simon Bacon Pdf

Famous for being deathly serious, the vampire genre has a consistent yet often critically overlooked subgenre--the comedic spoof and satire. This is the first book dedicated entirely to documenting and analyzing the vampire comedy on film and television. Various types of comedy are discussed, outlining the important differences between spoofing, serious-spoofing, parody and satire. Seminal films such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Love at First Bite, Vampire in Brooklyn, Dracula: Dead and Loving It and What We Do In the Shadows are featured. More importantly, this book demonstrates how comedy is central to both the common perception of the vampire and the genre's ever-evolving character, making it an essential read for those interested in the laughing undead and creatures that guffaw in the night.

Author : B.J. Daniels,Christina Dodd,Mary Kubica,Layla Reyne,Nicola Cornick,Brenda Novak
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488053566

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Chills & Thrills by B.J. Daniels,Christina Dodd,Mary Kubica,Layla Reyne,Nicola Cornick,Brenda Novak Pdf

** FREE DIGITAL SAMPLER FEATURING EXTENDED EXCERPTS FROM TODAY’S BESTSELLING AUTHORS ** Your sneak peek at this season’s most thrilling reads! From families with sinister secrets to unsolved murders and characters who aren’t what they seem, this heart pounding collection is sure to leave you on the edge of your seat and send chills up your spine. But don’t stay up too late… and remember to lock the door! Featuring extended excerpts from: Rogue Gunslinger by B.J. Daniels Hard to Kill by Christina Dodd When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica Craft Brew by Layla Rayne The Phantom Tree by Nicola Cornick Inside by Brenda Novak

Author : Roberto Curti
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786494378

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Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969 by Roberto Curti Pdf

The "Gothic" style was a key trend in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s because of its peculiar, often strikingly original approach to the horror genre. These films portrayed Gothic staples in a stylish and idiosyncratic way, and took a daring approach to the supernatural and to eroticism, with the presence of menacing yet seductive female witches, vampires and ghosts. Thanks to such filmmakers as Mario Bava (Black Sunday), Riccardo Freda (The Horrible Dr. Hichcock), and Antonio Margheriti (Castle of Blood), as well the iconic presence of actress Barbara Steele, Italian Gothic horror went overseas and reached cult status. The book examines the Italian Gothic horror of the period, with an abundance of previously unpublished production information drawn from official papers and original scripts. Entries include a complete cast and crew list, home video releases, plot summary and the author's analysis. Excerpts from interviews with filmmakers, scriptwriters and actors are included. The foreword is by film director and scriptwriter Ernesto Gastaldi.

Author : Wendy Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Spirit possession
ISBN : 0739439278

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Obsession and Possession by Wendy Morgan Pdf

Twin tales of terror.

Author : Janice Creel Clark
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781665732284

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The Rose Quartz Arrowhead by Janice Creel Clark Pdf

In the hamlet of Littafuchee, Alabama, in 1985, the KIRWIN family faces hardships and adventures in a crossroads community, an admixture of hilarious and murderous eccentrics. The Rose Quartz Arrowhead explores the reality of rural life decades ago when guns, brutality, segregation, patriarchy, and feuds ruled a closed system. As two of the keepers of the Native American rose quartz arrowhead (which represents the spirit of unconditional love when worn close to the heart), the Kirwin family’s two matriarchs do some lively storytelling about early family history. They and other locals offer insight into southern similes and metaphors, such as “the trouble with kittens is they grow up to be cats” and “dirt under my fingernails means food on our table.” Including wisdom from Alabama writers, lyricists, and pundits, this novel considers the old-timers’ dilemma: What happens when there is nobody to inherit the land? And the girl who inherits the rose quartz necklace is empowered having learned that loving deeply is both the reward and the source of pain for lives intermeshed. Built on a foundation of southern storytelling, this coming-of-age novel for older teens and adults tells the story of one family dealing with the joys and struggles of rural Alabama life.

Author : Patrick Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015053376383

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What's So Scary about R.L. Stine? by Patrick Jones Pdf

In this spirited defense, Patrick Jones examines Stine's genius for writing pop culture, a craft that has its own skills and value. Jones proposes that debate about Stine has become a prism through which we view questions about youth and popular reading, particularly horror and other paperback series.

Author : Ian Fleming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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You Only Love Twice by Ian Fleming Pdf

Author : Alan Finlayson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0814727328

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Contemporary Political Thought by Alan Finlayson Pdf

Contemporary Political Theory is a foundation textbook in political thought.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : NYPL:33433014395168

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Box Office by Anonim Pdf