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Horror film is an increasingly visible topic of research, as demonstrated by these two books, which attempt to balance textual analysis and historical inquiry with different degrees of success. Jancovich (Horror, Trafalgar Square, 1994) targets the 1950s in his scholarly treatment of titles like The Thing from Another World, The Day the Earth Stood Still, It Came from Outer Space, and Creature from the Black Lagoon. Refuting the usual interpretation that such films display Cold War paranoia, he shows how American 1950s horror cinema offered a critique of consumer culture, masculinity, and scientific rationality. His insightful reassessment links 1950s horror cinema to novels and comics and concludes with a section on how films of the period established conventions and themes that would be revisited by Hollywood during the Reagan years. A good addition for most film collections. Senn's filmography of 1930s horror cinema is simultaneously less scholarly than Jancovich and more dubious in its final effect. Golden Horrors contains entries for 46 films, with each entry divided into sections on memorable moments, assets, liabilities, reviews, and production notes. Synopses occupy too much space, and Senn's evaluations comprise a bland mix of fannish enthusiasm and low-level film analysis. His samples from contemporary reviews are illuminating but too often limited to Variety and the New York Times. His production notes are always informative, however. Additional depth would be welcome, especially in one of the appendixes, which supplies more than 50 pages in minuscule type of borderline horrors, rare films, and foreign titles. While Senn (Fantastic Cinema, McFarland, 1992) undoubtedly knows his topic, it is doubtful that the publisher packaged his knowledge in a manner that will benefit any library.Neal Baker, Dickinson Coll. Lib., Carlisle, Pa.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780719036231
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publication date: 9/1/1996
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 224
  • Product dimensions: 5.62 (w) x 8.78 (h) x 1.23 (d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Preface 1
Pt. 1 Creatures from beyond: rationalisation and resistance in the invasion narratives 7
1 Alien forms: horror and science fiction in the 1950s 9
2 The end of civilisation as we know it?: from mass destruction to depersonalisation 51
Pt. 2 The outsider narratives 81
3 Fantasies of mass culture: the fiction of Ray Bradbury 93
4 The dilemmas of masculinity: the fiction of Richard Matheson 129
5 The critique of maturity: the films of Jack Arnold 167
6 Teenagers and the independents: AIP and its rivals 197
Pt. 3 Resituating Psycho: paranoid horror and the crisis of identity at the end of the decade 219
7 Self-division, compulsion and murder: the fiction of Robert Bloch 235
8 The crisis of identity and the American gothic revival: from Forbidden Planet to the films of Roger Corman 261
9 Mothers and children: maternal dominance and childhood trauma in The Haunting of Hill House and Hitchcock's Psycho 285
Conclusion 303
Chronology 305
Bibliography 311
Index 319
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