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| ISBN: | 9780520940703
0520940709
9780520251212
0520251210
9780520251229
0520251229
9786611385620
6611385622
1435653653
9781435653658
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-177) and index.
Includes filmography: pages 179-181.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | In 1931 Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein, two films that inaugurated the horror genre in Hollywood cinema. These films appeared directly on the heels of Hollywood's transition to sound film. Uncanny Bodies argues that the coming of sound inspired more in these massively influential horror movies than screams, creaking doors, and howling wolves. A close examination of the historical reception of films of the transition period reveals that sound films could seem to their earliest viewers unreal and ghostly. By comparing this audience impression to the first sound horror films, Robert Spadoni makes a case for understanding film viewing as a force that can powerfully shape both the minutest aspects of individual films and the broadest sweep of film production trends, and for seeing aftereffects of the temporary weirdness of sound film deeply etched in the basic character of one of our most enduring film genres.
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| Other form: | Print version: Spadoni, Robert, 1964- Uncanny bodies. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007
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| Standard no.: | 10.1525/9780520940703
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