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17 produkter
Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde
Häftad, 2008
384 kr
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Music in film is often dismissed as having little cultural significance. While Hammer Film Productions is famous for such classic films as Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein, few observers have noted the innovative music that Hammer distinctively incorporated into its horror films.This book …
Touchstones of Gothic Horror
A Film Genealogy of Eleven Motifs and Images
Häftad, 2010
365 kr
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Gothic cinema, typified by the films of Universal, Hammer, Amicus and Tigon, grew out of an aesthetic that stretches back to the 18th century and beyond, even to Shakespeare. This book explores the origin of Gothic cinema in art and literature, tracing its connection to the Gothic revival in …
Ancient Egypt in the Popular Imagination
Building a Fantasy in Film, Literature, Music and Art
Häftad, 2012
426 kr
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Ancient Egypt has long been a source of fascination in Western popular culture. Movies such as The Mummy (1932, 1959), Biblical epics like The Ten Commandments (1923, 1956), and pharaonic films like Cleopatra (1934, 1963) and The Egyptian (1954) have all recreated the glamour and allure of Egyptian …
James Bernard, Composer to Count Dracula
A Critical Biography
Häftad, 2011
396 kr
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Composers give a unique and powerful voice to stories on the big screen. Those who work principally with one genre may leave a unique imprint. James Bernard was one such composer. From 1952 to the late 1990s, he was one of horror's definitive and distinctive voices, scoring many of Hammer's …
Visconti and the German Dream
Romanticism, Wagner and the Nazi Catastrophe in Film
Häftad, 2012
517 kr
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Luchino Visconti's trilogy of films Ludwig, Death in Venice and The Damned explore the complex relationship between the themes and ideals of German Romanticism and their impact on the catastrophe of the Third Reich. The personality and works of Richard Wagner to a large extent epitomize German …
Occult Arts of Music
An Esoteric Survey from Pythagoras to Pop Culture
Häftad, 2013
384 kr
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Occult traditions have inspired musical ingenuity for centuries. From the Pythagorean concept of a music of the spheres to the occult subculture of 20th-century pop and rock, music has often attempted to express mystical states of mind, cosmic harmony, the demonic and the divine--nowhere more so, …
Hammer Films' Psychological Thrillers, 1950-1972
Häftad, 2014
396 kr
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Hammer Film's is justly famous for Gothic horror but the company also excelled in the psychological thriller. Influenced by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Alfred Hitchcock, Hammer created its own approach to this genre in some of the company's very best films.This book takes a chronological, …
Poe Evermore
The Legacy in Film, Music and Television
Häftad, 2014
420 kr
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Edgar Allan Poe exerted a profound influence on many aspects of 20th century culture, and continues to inspire composers, filmmakers, writers and artists. Popularly thought of as a "horror" writer, Poe was also a philosophical aesthete, a satirist, a hoaxer, a psychologist and a prophet of the …
Dark and Stormy Oeuvre
Crime, Magic and Power in the Novels of Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Häftad, 2015
560 kr
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton--who coined the terms "the great unwashed" and "the pen is mightier than the sword"--is best remembered for persuading Dickens to change the ending of Great Expectations; but Lord Lytton was a prolific and influential novelist in his own right, inspiring Edgar Allan Poe, H. …
Music for the Superman
Nietzsche and the Great Composers
Häftad, 2016
487 kr
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Friedrich Nietzsche regarded himself as the most musical philosopher--he played the piano, wrote his own compositions and espoused a philosophy encouraging all to dance for joy. Central to his life and his ideas were the music and personality of Richard Wagner, whom he both loved and loathed at …
Green and Pagan Land
Myth, Magic and Landscape in British Film and Television
Häftad, 2018
429 kr
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British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features. The myth-inspired writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Algernon Blackwood, Aleister Crowley, Lord Dunsany and even Kenneth Grahame's The Wind …
Movie Magick
The Occult in Film
Häftad, 2018
487 kr
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"Magick" as defined by Aleister Crowley is "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will." This book explores expressions of movie magick in classic occult films like Hammer's adaptation of Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out and modern occult revival movies. These films …
Dirk Bogarde
Matinee Idol, Art House Star
Häftad, 2019
503 kr
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English actor Dirk Bogarde dominated the films in which he starred. Exploring the tension between his matinee idol appeal and his own closeted sexuality, this book focuses on the wide variety of genres in which he worked, and the highly charged interaction between his life and his roles.Beginning …
Terrors of the Flesh
The Philosophy of Body Horror in Film
Häftad, 2020
569 kr
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The horror and psychological denial of our mortality, along with the corruptibility of our flesh, are persistent themes in drama. Body horror films have intensified these themes in increasingly graphic terms. The aesthetic of body horror has its origins in the ideas of the Marquis de Sade and the …
Piano on Film
Häftad, 2022
541 kr
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Since the early days of silent film accompaniment, the piano has played an integral part in the history of cinema. Film's fascination with the piano, both in soundtracks and onscreen as a status symbol and icon of popular romanticism, offers a revealing opportunity to chart the changing perception …
