The curse of Frankenstein / Marcus K. Harmes
- Author
- Harmes, Marcus K.
- Published
- Vancouver : Auteur, 2015.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (103 pages) : illustrations
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- Series
- Contents
- Introduction; 1. The Film and its critics; 2. Adapting and Transgressing; 3. The Book: Adapting Shelley; 4. Cinema Part 1: Horror before Hammer; 5. Cinema Part 2: Heritage and Horror; Conclusion; Bibliography.
- Summary
- Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives where thrilled with the box office returns: The Curse of Frankenstein was big business. The 1957 film is the first to bring together in a horror movie the unholy two', Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, together with the Hammer company, and director Terence Fisher, combinations now legendary among horror fans. In his Devil's Advocate, Marcus Harmes goes back to where the Hammer horror production started, looking at the film from a variety of perspectives: as a loose literaryadaptation of Mary Shelley's novel; as a film that had, f.
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- ISBN
- 9780993071706 (electronic bk.)
0993071708 (electronic bk.)
9781800346987 (electronic bk.)
1800346980 (electronic bk.)
9781906733858 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
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