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It Came From the 1950s! - Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties (Hardcover): Darryl Jones, Elizabeth Mccarthy, Bernice M. Murphy It Came From the 1950s! - Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties (Hardcover)
Darryl Jones, Elizabeth Mccarthy, Bernice M. Murphy
R1,541 Discovery Miles 15 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"It Came From the 1950s" is an eclectic, witty and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties and desires of their times. The essays explore the emergence of "Hammer Horror" and the company's groundbreaking 1958 adaptation of "Dracula"; the work of popular authors such as Shirley Jackson and Robert Bloch, and the effect that 50s food advertisements had upon the poetry of Sylvia Plath; the place of special effects in the decade's science fiction films; and 1950s Anglo-American relations as refracted through the prism of the 1957 film "Night of the Demon."

Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic - Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others (Paperback): Elizabeth Mccarthy,... Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic - Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others (Paperback)
Elizabeth Mccarthy, Bernice M. Murphy
R1,136 R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Save R414 (36%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Horror and Gothic in all of their various forms have penetrated the cultural mainstream in a manner unseen since the last horror boom in mid/late 1970s; even people who would never before have entertained an interest in such dark genres are now happily settling down to watch zombie- and serial killer-related TV shows after the family dinner. This unique collection of 54 short biographical essays, by scholars and experts, brings together a vast array of figures who have played a role in the ever-expanding world of Gothic and Horror. However, you won't find the usual suspects here. Names such as Bram Stoker, Vincent Price, and Stephen King are notably absent. Such titans of terror have received and continue to receive prominent attention in all manner of publications. This collection, instead, focuses on those underrated or overlooked people whom our contributors persuasively argue are deserving of acknowledgement or reappraisal. Stimulatingly eclectic, the essays muse and enthuse on figures as diverse as American singer-songwriter, Tom Waits; British occultist and author, Dion Fortune; American author and scriptwriter, Charles Beaumont; Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop, Gregory of Tours; British gothic novelist and playwright, Francis Lathom; Japanese video game designer, Shinji Mikami; English stage and film actor, Skelton Knaggs; 19th-century Irish novelist, Charlotte Riddell; and Russian-born American experimental filmmaker, Maya Deren. Informative and entertaining, these essays expand, enrich (and, at times, challenge) the boundaries of what we actually define as Gothic and Horror. They celebrate the wide variety of talented individuals whose participation in Gothic and Horror's ongoing evolution has been unjustly overlooked...until now.

It Came From the 1950s! - Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011): Darryl Jones, Elizabeth Mccarthy,... It Came From the 1950s! - Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties (Paperback, 1st ed. 2011)
Darryl Jones, Elizabeth Mccarthy, Bernice M. Murphy
R1,517 Discovery Miles 15 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An eclectic and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties and desires of their times. 1950s popular culture is analysed by leading scholars and critics such as Christopher Frayling, Mark Jancovich, Kim Newman and David J. Skal.

Scripting with The Law of Attraction - Tips, Techniques, and Templates to Manifest Your Dream Life through Scripting... Scripting with The Law of Attraction - Tips, Techniques, and Templates to Manifest Your Dream Life through Scripting (Paperback)
Elizabeth Mccarthy
R298 Discovery Miles 2 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Art of Self-Compassion - A Creative Guide to Being Kind To Yourself (Paperback): Elizabeth Mccarthy The Art of Self-Compassion - A Creative Guide to Being Kind To Yourself (Paperback)
Elizabeth Mccarthy; Edited by Jennifer Watkins; Contributions by Jennifer Watkins
R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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