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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.
According to received wisdom parties have played a mainly
destructive role in French political development. Of questionable
legitimacy, pursuing narrow sectarian goals, often corruptly, they
have brought about division, weakness and the collapse of regimes.
A proper reading of history suggests differently. By combining
historical research and contemporary political science theory about
party, the author shows that for over a century party has irrigated
French democracy in often invisible ways, brokering working
compromises between groups divided strongly along social, political
and cultural lines. The key to this success is the party system,
which allowed for a high degree of collusion and cooptation between
political elites, rhetoric notwithstanding. This hidden logic has
persisted to this day despite the advent of presidentialism and
remains the key to the continuing prosperity of French democracy.
According to received wisdom parties have played a mainly
destructive role in French political development. Of questionable
legitimacy, pursuing narrow sectarian goals, often corruptly, they
have brought about division, weakness and the collapse of regimes.
A proper reading of history suggests differently. By combining
historical research and contemporary political science theory about
party, the author shows that for over a century party has irrigated
French democracy in often invisible ways, brokering working
compromises between groups divided strongly along social, political
and cultural lines. The key to this success is the party system,
which allowed for a high degree of collusion and cooptation between
political elites, rhetoric notwithstanding. This hidden logic has
persisted to this day despite the advent of presidentialism and
remains the key to the continuing prosperity of French democracy.
The "University of Reading European and International Studies"
series include books which discuss some of the major contemporary
issues from a comparative perspective. The aim of the collection is
to bring together studies that emphasize the role of political,
economic, historical and cultural factors in shaping the course of
international co-operation and international conflicts,
particularly from the point of view of Europe and its relations
with the rest of the world.;The impact of student protest on French
society and government in the 1960s is examined in this
socio-historical study. It analyzes the far-reaching consequences
of rebellion on trade unionism, the government and the arts.
Recent years have witnessed the development of new Christian
Democratic movements in Northern and Eastern Europe, and the
revival of those in Western Europe, which are subject to change in
an increasingly secular society. The Christian Democratic parties
are being required to respond to the new political challenges which
address any party, such as the future of the welfare state, or the
search for a new security agenda in Europe. These developments are
assessed in this text, together with an analysis of the challenges
the parties face, and suggestions for their future development.
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