Harmes, Marcus K. (2015) The curse of Frankenstein. Devil's Advocates. Columbia University Press (Auteur), Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom . ISBN 978-1-906733-85-8
Abstract
Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives where thrilled with the box office returns: 1957’s The Curse of Frankenstein was a big success and sent Hammer Films down a new and lucrative path. In his Devil’s Advocate, Marcus Harmes goes back to where the Hammer horror production started, looking at the film from a variety of perspectives: as a loose literary adaptation of Mary Shelley s novel; as a film that had, for legal reasons, to avoid adapting from James Whale's 1931 film for Universal Pictures; and as one which found immediate sources of inspiration in the Gainsborough bodice rippers of the 1940s and the poverty row horrors of the 1950s.
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| Item Type: | Book (Commonwealth Reporting Category A) |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Faculty / Department / School: | Current - Open Access College |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Aug 2015 05:04 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Aug 2016 01:26 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Hammer Film Productions; gothic cinema; adaptation theory; Frankenstein (character); Mary Shelley; Terence Fisher |
| Fields of Research : | 20 Language, Communication and Culture > 2005 Literary Studies > 200503 British and Irish Literature 19 Studies in Creative Arts and Writing > 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media > 190201 Cinema Studies 19 Studies in Creative Arts and Writing > 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media > 190204 Film and Television |
| Socio-Economic Objective: | E Expanding Knowledge > 97 Expanding Knowledge > 970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing |
| URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/27410 |
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