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Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema - Traces of a Lost Decade (Hardcover)
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Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema - Traces of a Lost Decade (Hardcover)
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The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and
written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises,
reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have
been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as
somehow inferior to a "classical" period or "canonical" mode of
horror in the 1930s, especially as represented by the monster films
of Universal Studios. The book's four sections re-evaluate the
historical, political, economic, and cultural factors informing
1940s horror cinema to introduce new theoretical frameworks and to
open up space for scholarly discussion of 1940s horror genre
hybridity, periodization, and aesthetics. Chapters focused on
Gothic and Grand Guignol traditions operating in forties horror
cinema, 1940s proto-slasher films, the independent horrors of the
Poverty Row studios, and critical reevaluations of neglected hybrid
films such as The Vampire's Ghost (1945) and "slippery" auteurs
such as Robert Siodmak and Sam Neufield, work to recover a decade
of horror that has been framed as having fallen victim to
repetition, exhaustion, and decline.
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