AMERICAN GOTHIC

AMERICAN GOTHIC

- SIX DECADES OF CLASSIC HORROR CINEMA -

Auteur : Jonathan Rigby

Année : 2017 (Réédition)

Editeur : Signum

Nombre de pages : 386

Couleur : N/B et Couleurs

Langue : Anglais

Quatrième de couverture : In the long-awaited American Gothic, Jonathan Rigby tells

the story of the Hollywood horror from its 19th century beginnings through to the arrival of Vincent Price as a horror star in films like House of Wax and The Fly. This 60-year period encompasses the shadowy nightmares of the silent era, the breakthrough hits produced by Universal, Warner Bros and M-G-M in the early days of talkies, the thoughtful RKO chillers of the 1940s, and the post-war boom in lurid science- fiction shockers. Out of print for more than ten years, American Gothic has been extensively revised and expanded, and is now available in hardback for the first time.

Sommaire : 

- Author's Note

- Part One : American Horror in Embryo (1897 - 1923)

- Part Two : Silent as the Tomb (1924 - 1930)

- Part Three : Children of the Night (1930 - 1936)

- Part Four : Rising from the past (1937 - 1942)

- Part Five : Diminishing Returns (1943 - 1945)

- Part Six : Post-War Permutations (1946 - 1956)

- Part Seven : Teenage Kicks (1956 - 1959)

- Source Notes

- Alternatives Titles

- Title Index