American Gothic
Six Decades of Classic Horror Cinema
$52.54
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
3 October 2017
Summary
In the long-awaited American Gothic Jonathan Rigby tells the story of the Hollywood horror film from its 19th-century beginnings through to the arrival of Vincent Price as a genre star in films like House of Wax and The Fly. This 60-year period encompasses the shadowy nightmares of the silent era, the breakthrough hits produced by Universal, Warner Bros and M-G-M in the early days of talkies, the thoughtful RKO chillers of the 1940s and the post-war boom in lurid science-fiction shockers. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780995519138 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0995519137 |
| Author: | Jonathan Rigby |
| Publisher: | Signum Books (Imprint of Flashpoint Media Ltd) |
| Imprint: | Signum Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 3 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.33kg |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 182mm x 234mm |
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Jonathan Rigby
Jonathan Rigby has been described in Video Watchdog magazine as occupying ‘a proud place in the advance guard of film researchers, writers and critics.’ He is also the author of Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History, Roxy Music: Both Ends Burning, American Gothic: Sixty Years of Horror Cinema and Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema.
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