Hutchings / Walker Hammer and beyond

The British horror film
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5119-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

The second edition of Peter Hutchings’s landmark work on British horror cinema, featuring later writings by Hutchings and a new introduction by film historian Johnny Walker.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hutchings, Peter

Walker, Johnny

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A return to Hammer and Beyond: introduction to the new edition – Johnny Walker

Part I: Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film
Introduction to the first edition
1 For sadists only? The problem of British horror
2 1945–55: from Dead of Night to The Quatermass Experiment
3 1956–64: Hammer and other horrors
4 Frankenstein and Dracula
5 1964–69: horror production
6 Horror and the family
Conclusion

Part II: Selected writings on British horror film
The Amicus House of Horror
American Vampires in Britain: Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend and Hammer’s The Night Creatures
Putting the Brit into Eurohorror: exclusions and exchanges in the history of European horror
Afterword – Russ Hunter
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Hutchings (1961–2018) was Professor of Film Studies at Northumbria University

Johnny Walker is Senior Lecturer in Media at Northumbria University