Recovering 1940s horror cinema : traces of a lost decade /
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Lexington Books,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: fragments of the monster "recovering a lost decade" / Mario Degiglio-Bellemare, Kristopher Woofter
- Image: motion picture purgatory: The devil bat (1940) / Rick Trembles
- Interventions. A darkly hypothetical reality: gothic realism in 1940s Hollywood horror / Kristopher Woofter
- Strange pleasure: 1940s proto-slasher cinema / Peter Marra
- Dead zone: genre, gender, and the lost decade of horror cinema, 1946-56 / Ian Olney
- Val Lewton, Mr. Gross, and the Grand-Guignol: re-staging the corpse in The body snatcher / Mario Degiglio-Bellemare
- Hybridity. Robert Siodmak's The spiral staircase: horror genre hybridity, vertical alterity and the avant-garde / Anne Golden
- The child witness: peril and empowerment in 1940s horror, from The East Side kids to The window / Kier-la Janisse
- Making visible the sonic threat: the Inner Sanctum Mysteries radio series and its Universal Studios film adaptations / Charlie Ellb�e
- Poe, horror, and the cinematic mystery hybrids of the 1940s / Dennis Perry
- The murderer's mind: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and the monstrous psychologies of 1940s horror film / Mark Jancovich
- History. Serial killers, deals with the devil and the madness of crowds: the horror film in Nazi-occupied France / David Hanley
- Always hearing voices, never hearing mine: sound and fury in The snake pit / Karen Herland
- The demise of the cinematic zombie: from the golden age of Hollywood to the 1940s / Louise Fenton
- Fears new and old: the post-war American horror film / Gary D. Rhodes
- Poverty row. Hypodermic needles and evil twins: the poverty row wartime horrors of Sam Newfield / Paul Corupe
- Of apes and men (and monsters and girls): the ape film and 1940s horror cinema / Blair Davis
- The perfect Neanderthal man: Rondo Hatton as "the creeper" and the cultural economy of 1940s B-movies / Cory Legassic
- Tthe vampire's ghost: the case for a poverty row horror classic / Selma Purac.