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Author: Mark Clark Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786426829 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 269
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While you may think the old adage about oil and water being unable to mix applies perfectly to the cinema of terror and the craft of great acting, many a grease-painted scare and fluid performance have been combined in the strange alchemy that is the horror film. From the silent mastery of Lon Chaney's The Phantom of the Opera to the cultured cannibalism of Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, the genre has seen an impressive number of noteworthy portrayals, far removed from the stereotypical leering monster and terrified maiden. Part One of this work highlights the stars of this screen style--those whose numerous roles and outstanding performances made their names synonymous with horror cinema. Part Two covers actors who, although not normally associated with the genre, still contributed to its history. Part Three covers the great actresses in horror films and highlights their acting achievement. An appendix lists all the Academy Award nominations and winners in the horror genre.
Author: Mark Clark Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786426829 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 269
Book Description
While you may think the old adage about oil and water being unable to mix applies perfectly to the cinema of terror and the craft of great acting, many a grease-painted scare and fluid performance have been combined in the strange alchemy that is the horror film. From the silent mastery of Lon Chaney's The Phantom of the Opera to the cultured cannibalism of Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, the genre has seen an impressive number of noteworthy portrayals, far removed from the stereotypical leering monster and terrified maiden. Part One of this work highlights the stars of this screen style--those whose numerous roles and outstanding performances made their names synonymous with horror cinema. Part Two covers actors who, although not normally associated with the genre, still contributed to its history. Part Three covers the great actresses in horror films and highlights their acting achievement. An appendix lists all the Academy Award nominations and winners in the horror genre.
Author: Philip J. Riley Publisher: ISBN: 9781629335124 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 198
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This book is a complete history of the 1944 horror film, with introduction by film star Peter Coe. It contains complete original shooting script, details of the making, rare behind the scenes photographs, complete pressbook, and a special interview with leading actress Elena Verdugo.
Author: Caroline Picart Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 248
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This text showcases the versatility of the Frankenstein myth as expressed in cinema's horror genre. It offers a sustained critical analysis of the story's evolution over many decades, many studios, and many different styles of film-making, employing both primary texts and scholarly examination.
Author: Philip J. Riley Publisher: Magicimage Filmbooks ISBN: Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 172
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From the vaults of the Ackerman Archives. Contains: production background; a press book; biography notes on cast and crew; complete shooting script; rare photos; and behind the scene photos.
Author: Edmund T. Lowe Publisher: Magicimage Filmbooks ISBN: Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 206
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From the vaults of the Ackerman Archives. Contains: production background; a press book; biography notes on cast and crew; complete shooting script; rare photos; and behind the scene photos.
Author: Michael Mallory Publisher: Rizzoli Publications ISBN: 0789318962 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 254
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From the 1920s through the 1950s, Universal Studios was Hollywood’s number one studio for horror pictures, haunting movie theaters worldwide with Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, among others. Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror explores all of these enduring characters, chronicling both the mythology behind the films and offering behind-the-scenes insights into how the films were created. Universal Studios Monsters is the most complete record of the horror films of this legendary studio, with biographies of major personalities who were responsible for the most notable monster melodramas in film history. The stories of these films and their creators are told through interviews with surviving actors and studio employees. A lavish photographic record, including many behind-the-scenes shots, completes the story of how these classics were made. This is a volume no fan of imaginative cinema will want to be without.
Author: Jonathan Rigby Publisher: ISBN: Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 364
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From the author of the acclaimed English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema, American Gothic presents an in-depth survey of the early years of the American horror film--ranging from the birth of cinema and the silent era to the mid-1950s. Jonathan Rigby examines a great many of the seminal films, including Cat People, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula, The Fly, Frankenstein, Freaks, House of Wax, The Invisible Man, and She. He also looks at the actors and directors--Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Vincent Price, to name but a few. For fans and students of the horror classics, American Gothic is an essential work. This is the genre as it flourished from Univeral's early-thirties cycle and which culminated in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece Psycho, a film which forever changed and expanded the possibilities of horror cinema.
Author: Philip J. Riley Publisher: ISBN: 9781593934965 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 212
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When "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" became box office hits for Universal, Carl Laemmle Junior immediately ordered that sequels be written for both films. Scripts were prepared but Junior's choice of director - James Whale - had had enough of monster films and was doing everything he could to avoid them. Finally in 1935, after getting out of shooting "Dracula's Daughter" Whale agreed to direct "The Return of Frankenstein." In this volume is the final shooting script by John L. Balderston. Balderston added more scenes from the novel, such as the monster hiding in a peasant's hut and learning to read and speak. But Whale thought his version of the Monster's personality too brutish and evil. He wrote a new script with screenwriter William Hurlbut, added new characters such as Mini and Dr. Pretorius, keeping Balderston's script as just an outline. Most historians and fans feel that when Return of Frankenstein was renamed "Bride of Frankenstein" it became the most beloved film in Universal's Classic Monster films.
Author: Philip J. Riley Publisher: Magicimage Filmbooks ISBN: Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 204
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From the vaults of the Ackerman Archives. Contains: production background; a press book; biography notes on cast and crew; complete shooting script; rare photos; and behind the scene photos.
Author: Philip J. Riley Publisher: Bearmanor Media ISBN: 9781593934774 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 138
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Following Phantom of the Opera (1943), in the middle of the Silver age of Universal Studio's monster movies, a new sequel to Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman was considered for a Technicolor production: Wolfman vs Dracula! Lon Chaney Jr., who was the only actor to portray Universal's four classic monster roles; Dracula, frankenstein's monster, the mummy and the wolfman. At first Chaney was to play both roles, as his father Lon Chaney Sr. had done in several of his famous silent films. But Larry Talbot in his human phase would look exactly like Count Dracula so the role of Dracula was given to it's originator Bela Lugosi. A script was prepared by Bernard Shubert, who had written the screenplay for Tod Browning's London After Midnight(MGM 1927) remake Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935). Shubert kept the settings very tight in its scenes, to keep the cost down to balance out for the extra expense of technicolor. But by 1944 Bela Lugosi was in his 60s and would have had to play part of his role as a giant bat much like in the Copolla Bram Stoker's Dracula in the 90s - and that would have been too much for him. And they couldn't have the Wolfman fighting an animated bat much like John Carradine's depiction of the Count or even Lugosi's portrayal in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. So they decided to make one of their Arabian Nights film on the Technicolor contract and all that remained of Wolfman vs Dracula are some color 8x10s of Chaney in both parts. This volume has a short biography of screenwriter/TV producer Bernard Shubert and comments from Shubert and special effects cinematographer David Stanley Horsley.
Author: Mark Clark
Author: Mark Clark
Author: Philip J. Riley
Author: Caroline Picart
Author: Philip J. Riley
Author: Edmund T. Lowe
Author: Michael Mallory
Author: Jonathan Rigby
Author: Philip J. Riley
Author: Philip J. Riley
Author: Philip J. Riley