Tim Snelson

Phantom Ladies

Hollywood Horror and the Home Front

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Defying industry logic and gender expectations, women started flocking to see horror films in the early 1940s. The departure of the young male audience and the surprise success of the film Cat People convinced studios that there was an untapped female audience for horror movies. This title reveals the untold story of how the Hollywood horror film changed dramatically in the early 1940s, including both female heroines and monsters while incorporating elements of "women's genres”.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780813570426
• ISBN-10: 0813570425
• Artikelnr.: 40844624

Autorenporträt

 TIM SNELSON is a lecturer in media history at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Horror on the Home Front
1          Rebecca Meets TheWolfman at RKO: The Emergence of the Female
Monster Cycle, 1942–1943
2          Series, Sequels, and Double Bills: The Evolution of the Female
Monster Cycle, 1943–1944
3          “A” Class Monsters: The Escalation into Prestige Productions,
1944–1945
4          From Whatdunit to Whodunit: The Postwar Psychologization of
Horror, 1945–1946
Conclusion: Only for the Duration