Uncanny bodies : the coming of sound film and the origins of the horror genre

Uncanny bodies : the coming of sound film and the origins of the horror genre / Robert Spadoni.

In 1931 Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein, two films that inaugurated the horror genre in Hollywood cinema. These films appeared directly on the heels of Hollywood's transition to sound film. Uncanny Bodies argues that the coming of sound inspired more in these massively infl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spadoni, Robert, 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
Subjects:
Horror films > United States > History and criticism.
Sound motion pictures > History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
Horror films
Sound motion pictures
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. uncanny body of early sound film
  • 2. Ludicrous objects, textualized responses
  • 3. mystery of Dracula
  • 4. Dracula as uncanny theater.

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