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Horror noir where cinema's dark sisters meet / by Meehan, Paul, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Horror and fantasy elements in classic films noir -- Horror noir in the 1930s -- The Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur noir legacy -- Horror noir from radioland -- Monster noir -- Gothic and costume noir -- Horror noir in the 1950s -- Hitchcock's psychological ghosts and doppelgängers -- Modern horror noir in the 1960s -- Horror noirs of the 1970s and '80s -- The noir horrors of Hannibal the cannibal -- The mean streets of hell -- Conclusion : horror and film noir: the dark genres.…”
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Horror noir where cinema's dark sisters meet / by Meehan, Paul, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Horror and fantasy elements in classic films noir -- Horror noir in the 1930s -- The Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur noir legacy -- Horror noir from radioland -- Monster noir -- Gothic and costume noir -- Horror noir in the 1950s -- Hitchcock's psychological ghosts and doppelgängers -- Modern horror noir in the 1960s -- Horror noirs of the 1970s and '80s -- The noir horrors of Hannibal the cannibal -- The mean streets of hell -- Conclusion : horror and film noir: the dark genres.…”
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Robert Wise : shadowlands ; a Wes D. Gehring biography. by Gehring, Wes D.

Table of Contents: “…The early years -- A career detour: 1930s Hollywood -- Orson Welles -- Val Lewton and becoming a director -- Lewton and Maupassant: a template picture -- Wise's first noir classic: Born to kill -- Signature cinema: the set-up -- Life after RKO: The day the earth stood still and genre diversity -- Melodrama in various war settings: Run silent, run deep as metaphor -- "portraits" and biographies doubling as melodramas and/or noirs -- Wise's brass-ring decade: the 1960s -- Filmmaking: "a terribly expensive paint box" -- Epilogue.…”
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Robert Wise : shadowlands ; a Wes D. Gehring biography. by Gehring, Wes D.

Table of Contents: “…The early years -- A career detour: 1930s Hollywood -- Orson Welles -- Val Lewton and becoming a director -- Lewton and Maupassant: a template picture -- Wise's first noir classic: Born to kill -- Signature cinema: the set-up -- Life after RKO: The day the earth stood still and genre diversity -- Melodrama in various war settings: Run silent, run deep as metaphor -- "portraits" and biographies doubling as melodramas and/or noirs -- Wise's brass-ring decade: the 1960s -- Filmmaking: "a terribly expensive paint box" -- Epilogue.…”
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Recovering 1940s horror cinema : traces of a lost decade /

Table of Contents: “…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. …”
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Recovering 1940s horror cinema : traces of a lost decade /

Table of Contents: “…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. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view