The curse of Frankenstein /
In his Devil's Advocate, Marcus K. Harmes goes back to where the Hammer horror production started, looking at the film from a variety of perspectives: as a loose literary adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel; as a film that had, for legal reasons, to avoid adapting from James Whale's 19...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leighton Buzzard, UK :
Auteur,
[2015]
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| Series: | Devil's advocates.
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| Summary: | In his Devil's Advocate, Marcus K. Harmes goes back to where the Hammer horror production started, looking at the film from a variety of perspectives: as a loose literary adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel; as a film that had, for legal reasons, to avoid adapting from James Whale's 1931 film for Universal Pictures; and as one which found immediate sources of inspiration in the Gainsborough bodice rippers of the 1940s and the poverty row horrors of the 1950s. In the film sparks fly, new life is created and horrors unleashed but the film itself was a jolt to 1950s cinema going that has never been entirely surpassed. -- cover |
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| Physical Description: | 100 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographic references (pages 95-100). |
| ISBN: | 9781906733858 (pbk.) 1906733856 (pbk.) 9780993071706 (ebook) 0993071708 (ebook) |