A new heritage of horror : the English gothic cinema /
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| Author / Creator: | Pirie, David, 1946- |
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| Edition: | [New ed.]. |
| Imprint: | London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : In the United States and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. |
| Description: | xvi, 254 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6671813 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the New Edition
- Introduction (2007)
- Introduction to First Edition
- 1. The Characteristics of English Gothic Literature
- 'The Tempestuous Loveliness of Terror'
- Surrealism and the Gothic Tradition
- Horror and the Tyranny of 'Realism'
- 2. The Identification of Hammer
- Hammer's Origins
- The Press Reaction
- Hammer and Censorship
- Hammer and UK Horror after Frankenstein
- The Personalities of Hammer
- James Carreras and the American Dimension
- Bray Studios
- 3. The World of Terence Fisher
- Post-script 2007
- 4. Approaches to Frankenstein: Fisher, Francis and Sangster
- The Frankenstein Television Series
- The Last Hammer Frankenstein Movies
- 5. Approaches to Dracula
- 6. Other Approaches to Horror
- Sadian Movies
- The British Sadian Movie and the Censor
- The Aftermath
- The Amicus Factor
- 7. Three Satellite Directors
- Don Sharp
- John Gilling
- Vernon Sewell
- 8. Science Fiction, Exoticism and Psychosis
- Science Fiction
- Exoticism
- Psychosis
- A Note on Comedy-Horror
- 9. A Renaissance of Themes and Ideas?
- Michael Reeves
- After Witchfinder
- Hammer's Last Period
- Hammer Versus Warner Brothers
- Hammer's Final Days
- 10. Towards a New Horror Mythology
- Later UK Horror
- Stephen Volk
- Stephen Woolley
- Clive Barker
- The 1990s
- Paul Anderson
- The New Century, The New Boom
- The Television Factor
- The Future?
- Appendix 1. The Urban Legends of Hammer
- Appendix 2. Two Checklists
- Appendix 3. Filmography
- Select Bibliography
