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Hollywood Horrors
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Author : Andrea Van Landingham
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-11-01
Hollywood Horrors written by Andrea Van Landingham and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-01 with True Crime categories.
The name “Hollywood” conjures up fantastical images of bright lights, glamorous dreams, and impossible riches. From its humble beginnings as a ranch sprawling northwest of Los Angeles in the late 1800s, Hollywood has spanned lifetimes as a factory of dreams, a dazzling place where all things are possible. This collection of stories takes you on a journey into the golden age, illuminating the space between the airy fantasy and the gritty reality of life in Hollywood. In a transient city where nothing lasts, thousands of stories have taken place in their time here. From the offscreen debauchery of the silent era, to countless dramatic and mysterious deaths, to the sinister past lives of world-famous LA landmarks, vestiges of Hollywood’s checkered past can still be found all over the city. With generations of Tinseltown’s luminaries living and working under the sunny guise of paradisal prosperity, their real stories reveal the sordid underbelly lurking directly beneath the surface. A dangerous collusion between the studios, the press, the mob, and the LAPD forms an impenetrable behind-the-scenes network of corruption, power and control, where the truth is always up for sale. A network in which the most glamorous and well-known figures are merely players in this elaborate charade. It’s magical and gritty, it’s ugly and dirty, it’s the land of dreams...it’s Hollywood.
Hollywood S Pre Code Horrors 1931 1934
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Author : Raymond Valinoti Jr.
language : en
Publisher: BearManor Media
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Hollywood S Pre Code Horrors 1931 1934 written by Raymond Valinoti Jr. and has been published by BearManor Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Performing Arts categories.
In the first few years of the Great Depression, before the Production Code was rigidly enforced in 1934, Hollywood took advantage of its laxity, producing racy and violent films that titillated filmgoers and outraged reformers. The American horror genre blossomed during this time and the studios exploited its lurid possibilities. The results were both shocking and controversial. Some of these films remain unsettling today. Hollywood's Pre-Code Horrors 1931-1934 appraises all of these films, from Dracula (1931), which spearheaded the American horror market, to The Black Cat (1934), the last chiller released before the strengthening of the Code. Each film is thoroughly analyzed, not only in its insinuations and/or portrayals of sex and violence, but in the context of the era in which it was made and the reactions of critics and filmgoers during this time. Raymond Valinoti, Jr. is a resident of Berkeley Heights, NJ. He has a Master's in Library Science from Rutgers University and is a freelance researcher. He is also the author of Another Nice Mess: The Laurel and Hardy Story. His articles on films have been published in the magazines Midnight Marquee and Films of the Golden Age. "Fans of classic horror films are in for an important and enlightening history lesson. The book recalls a time when Hollywood came under scrutiny by highly-vocal moral crusaders. But before cracking down on them with their strict new Production Code, cinematic horror thrived during a relatively permissive period in the early 1930s, with author Valinoti profiling 19 of these films, from the biggest hits (King Kong, Frankenstein) to financial flops that are now considered classics (Island of Lost Souls, Freaks). We get a brief history of each film’s production and marketing, as well as their assorted pre- and post-production censorship problems, with lots of favorites popping up along the way, including Mystery of the Wax Museum, The Black Cat, and Murders in the Zoo." - Shock Cinema
Hollywoods Pre Code Horrors 19
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Author : Raymond Valinoti Jr
language : en
Publisher: BearManor Media
Release Date : 2017-01-04
Hollywoods Pre Code Horrors 19 written by Raymond Valinoti Jr and has been published by BearManor Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-04 with Performing Arts categories.
In the first few years of the Great Depression, before the Production Code was rigidly enforced in 1934, Hollywood took advantage of its laxity, producing racy and violent films that titillated filmgoers and outraged reformers. The American horror genre blossomed during this time and the studios exploited its lurid possibilities. The results were both shocking and controversial. Some of these films remain unsettling today. Hollywood's Pre-Code Horrors 1931-1934 appraises all of these films, from Dracula (1931), which spearheaded the American horror market, to The Black Cat (1934), the last chiller released before the strengthening of the Code. Each film is thoroughly analyzed, not only in its insinuations and/or portrayals of sex and violence, but in the context of the era in which it was made and the reactions of critics and filmgoers during this time. Raymond Valinoti, Jr. is a resident of Berkeley Heights, NJ. He has a Master's in Library Science from Rutgers University and is a freelance researcher. He is also the author of Another Nice Mess: The Laurel and Hardy Story. His articles on films have been published in the magazines Midnight Marquee and Films of the Golden Age.
Hollywoods Pre Code Horrors 19
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Author : Jr. Raymond Valinoti
language : en
Publisher: BearManor Media
Release Date : 2017-01-06
Hollywoods Pre Code Horrors 19 written by Jr. Raymond Valinoti and has been published by BearManor Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-06 with Performing Arts categories.
Hollywood's Pre-Code Horrors 1931-1934 appraises all horror films from Dracula (1931), which spearheaded the American horror market, to The Black Cat (1934), the last chiller released before the strengthening of the Code.
Mad Doctors Monsters And Mummies
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Author : Denis Gifford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Mad Doctors Monsters And Mummies written by Denis Gifford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Film posters categories.
Reel Horror
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Author : John W. Law
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-11
Reel Horror written by John W. Law and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11 with Horror films categories.
Death, destruction, terror and more - not just on the screen, but behind it. Take a look behind some of Hollywood's legendary horror films at the real horrors of the silver screen. The death of Brandon Lee on the set of 'The Crow'; The true terror behind 'The Amityville Horror'; The tragedies surrounding 'Poltergeist'; The horror behind the real story surrounding 'Psycho'; And more horrors behind 'The Exorcist; Jaws, Twilgiht Zone - The Movie' and more. From the author of 'Curse of the Silver Screen' comes a new book behind the making of Hollywood History. Packed with photos and stories that never made it on the big screen, stars like Alfred Hitchcock, Joan Crawford, Steven Spielberg, Bette Davis, Vic Morrow, John Landis, Brandon Lee, Janet Leigh, and many others are featured. It's real horror behind the reel horrors
Forgotten Horrors Vol 2 Beyond The Horror Ban
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Author : Michael Price
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2012-09-26
Forgotten Horrors Vol 2 Beyond The Horror Ban written by Michael Price and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-26 with categories.
The revised and expanded sequel to Michael H. Price and George E. Turner's groundbreaking "Forgotten Horrors: The Original Volume--Except More So" covers the development of the independent movie studios' approach to horror, weird mystery, and science fiction during a period of banishment for the genre by the British and European boards of censorship. "The notorious Horror Ban of the late 1930s accounted for some dark days in Hollywood," says lead author Mike Price. "The British Board of Censors had been trying its level best since the late silent-era years to keep the creepier fare out of England, but the group had concentrated on individual titles, such as 1932's Island of Lost Souls and Freaks, until a coalition developed with the European censors. The foreign market was lucrative enough for the Hollywood studios that this embargo had some teeth. Strange that the censors neglected to notice the moral lessons implicit in classic horror fiction, usually in a warning about 'tampering with things man was meant to leave alone.' "The ban lasted from 1936-1937 until well into 1939, when the genre enthusiasts had become sufficiently fed up to make a major hit out of the simple reissue of 1931's Dracula and Frankenstein as a double feature," adds Price. "Universal Pictures challenged the ban by reuniting Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi for the entirely new 'Son of Frankenstein' in 1939, and the ban found itself broken." 'Forgotten Horrors Vol. 2: Beyond the Horror Ban' offers an in-depth study of how the prolific smaller studios made it through the ban and rallied in its wake. The new edition covers a stretch from 1938 through 1942, dovetailing with the recently published 'Forgotten Horrors: The Original Volume-Except More So.' New light is directed onto Lugosi's 10 starring features for the tiny studios of PRC Pictures and Monogram Pictures, Karloff's series of 'Mr. Wong' detective adventures, and an unusual series teaming Mantan Moreland and Frankie Darro as an integrated team of amateur detectives. Chapters new to this edition cover the haunted-house comedy 'Comes Midnight, ' the African expeditionary picture 'Dark Rapture, ' and a lowbrow wartime comedy, 'Hillbilly Blitzkrieg, ' that contains a surprising foreshadowing of Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr. Strangelove' (1964). A key chapter, "Beyond the Horror Ban," relates the little-known tale of how one theatre in Beverly Hills provoked Universal Pictures to challenge the censors. The book also shows how subversive elements of terror and creepy mystery insinuated themselves into otherwise conventional films during the span of the ban. Vol. 2 also unearths neglected items from the fabled Tyler, Texas, Black Film Collection at Southern Methodist University-Price was among the original discoverers of that trove of historic motion pictures-and resurrects forgotten performances by such celebrated figures of Old Hollywood as Peter Lorre, Dorothy Dandridge, and Franklyn Pangborn. The survey cuts across many distinct genres, from Westerns to comedies to crime thrillers and disaster pictures, all compiled from primary-source research and exclusive interviews. The Foreword is by Josh Alan Friedman, the author of such books as "Tell the Truth until They Bleed," and (with illustrator Drew Friedman) "Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental." The Forgotten Horrors books, which originated in 1980, have been designated as Standard Desk References by the American Film Institute. Five volumes have been completed, with revisions and expansions in place on the first two books, refinements in progress on Vol. 3 and Vol. 4, and additional volumes in preparation. Price and the late George E. Turner originated the series as an offshoot of their research on behalf of the American Film Institute. Price and Turner also are responsible for such books as "The Making of King Kong (Spawn of Skull Island)" (1975-2002) and "The Cinema of Adventure, Romance & Terror" (1989).
Republic Horrors
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Author : Brian McFadden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Republic Horrors written by Brian McFadden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with B films categories.
Republic Pictures produced first-rate fright films in the forties, but they have been largely unavailable on TV for decades. Brian McFadden brings these long lost chillers to life, complete with the circumstances surrounding their productions and fascinating deatils about the people both in front of and behind the cameras.
Universal Horrors
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Author : Tom Weaver
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2011-12-20
Universal Horrors written by Tom Weaver and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-20 with Performing Arts categories.
Revised and updated since its first publication in 1990, this acclaimed critical survey covers the classic chillers produced by Universal Studios during the golden age of hollywood horror, 1931 through 1946. Trekking boldly through haunts and horrors from The Frankenstein Monster, The Wolf Man, Count Dracula, and The Invisible Man, to The Mummy, Paula the Ape Woman, The Creeper, and The Inner Sanctum, the authors offer a definitive study of the 86 films produced during this era and present a general overview of the period. Coverage of the films includes complete cast lists, credits, storyline, behind-the-scenes information, production history, critical analysis, and commentary from the cast and crew (much of it drawn from interviews by Tom Weaver, whom USA Today calls "the king of the monster hunters"). Unique to this edition are a new selection of photographs and poster reproductions and an appendix listing additional films of interest.
Little Horrors
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Author : T.S. Kord
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-07-25
Little Horrors written by T.S. Kord and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-25 with Performing Arts categories.
Zombies, werewolves and chainsaw-wielding maniacs are tried-and-true staples of horror films. But none can match the visceral dread evoked by a child with an innocent face and a diabolical stare. Cinema's evil children attack our cherished ideas of innocence and our innocent bystander status as the audience. A good horror film is a scary ride--a "devil child" movie is a guilt trip. This book examines 24 international films--with discussions of another 100--that in effect "indict" viewers for crimes of child abuse and abandonment, greed, social and ecological negligence, and political and war crimes, and for persistent denial of responsibility for them all. For 75 years evil children have ritually rebuked audiences and, in playing on our guilt, established a horror subgenre that might be described as a blood-spattered rampage on an ethical mission.