Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 200 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350134331
,
9781350129375
,
1788314085
Content:
"The Mummy is one of the most recognizable figures in horror and is as established in the popular imagination as virtually any other monster, yet the Mummy on screen has until now remained a largely overlooked figure in critical analysis of the cinema. In this compelling new study, Basil Glynn explores the history of the Mummy film, uncovering lost and half-forgotten movies along the way, revealing the cinematic Mummy to be an astonishingly diverse and protean figure with a myriad of on-screen incarnations. In the course of investigating the enduring appeal of this most 'Oriental' of monsters, Glynn traces the Mummy's development on screen from its roots in popular culture and silent cinema, through Universal Studios' Mummy movies of the 1930s and 40s, to Hammer Horror's re-imagining of the figure in the 1950s, and beyond."--
Content:
Acknowledgements Author's Notes -- Introduction: Death is Only the Beginning: Unravelling the Mummy on Screen -- Section 1: The Mummy in the West and Western Cinema -- 1. The Creature's Features: Moulding the Mummy and the Mummy Movie -- The Oriental Mummy as Western Projection -- The Mummy Genre: Interest and Disinterest -- 2.The Mutating Mummy: From Ancient Artefact to Modern Attraction -- Mummy Medicine: An Egyptian Prescription -- The Mummy as Memento: A Collectible Corpse -- The Mummy as Public Attraction: Exhumed, Examined and Exhibited -- Section II: The Mummy in Literature, on Stage and the Silent Screen -- 3.On the Page and Stage: The Mummy Movie's Literary and Theatrical Influences -- The Mummy's Tome: A Body of Literature -- The Rediscovery of Ancient Egypt: A Pharaoh to Remember -- The Mummy's Literary Life: Electrifying Tales! -- Romance and the Mummy: Amorous Archaeologists and Comely Corpses -- Literature's Monstrous Mummies: Dread, Despair and Doyle -- The Empire Strikes Back: Stoker's Au Revoir to the Voyeur Archaeologist -- Playing Dead: The Mummy in the Theatre -- 4. Preserved on Film: The Silent Mummy of Early Cinema -- Egypt and the Cinema: Monoliths, Mesmerism and Mummies -- The 'Mummy Complex' and the Preservative Nature of Film -- The First On-Screen Mummies: Short-lived Moments of Horror in the -- Trick Film Winding People Up: Pretend Mummies and Mummy Mix-ups in Silent Comedies -- Mummy Dearest: The Mummy as Romantic Character -- Tomb Raiders: Egypt and Early Horror -- Teutonic Terrors: The First Mummy Horror Movies -- Grave Danger: Tutmania, the Curse and the Death of the Silent Mummy -- Section III: Universal Studios and the Mummy of the 1930s and 1940s -- 5. The Mummy (1932): Overcoming the Silent Treatment -- 'The Mummy:' Art Horror or Production Line Horror? -- The Delicate Horror of 'The Mummy:' A Shudder not a Shriek! -- A Dichotomized Damsel: A 1920s/1930s Eastern/Western Woman -- A Real Lady-Killer: "The Mummy" as Gothic Romance.
Content:
The Mummy and the Nubian: Yellow Peril and Black Brute -- 6. The 1940s Mummy Film: A Decade of Decay -- The Mummy Returns: The 1940s Mummy as Cadaverous Copy -- More than the Sum of Its Parts: Innovation and the 1940s Mummy -- 'The Mummy's Hand' -- (1940): Reinventing the Mummy -- 'The Mummy's Tomb' (1942): A Memorably Murderous Mummy -- Lon Chaney Jr.: Cursing the Mummy! -- The Mummy in America: Fear and Roaming in New England -- "The Mummy's Ghost (1944):" Escaping Bandaged Bondage -- "The Mummy's Curse (1944):" The Female Mummy Returns -- The Demise and Rise of the Mummy: To Buffoon and Back Again -- Section IV. Hammer Studios and Beyond: The Mummy of the 1950s-Present -- 7. Hammer's Resurrection of the Mummy: Sex and Digs and Wrap and Roll -- Show Me the Mummy: Realism with Restraint in 'The Mummy' -- Culture Clash: The Mummy's Case and the Aftermath of Suez -- 8. Wrapping up the Mummy: The Last 60 Years -- Bibliography.
Note:
Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers
,
Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781788314084
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-78831-408-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350134331
Bookmarklink
