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David Huckvale
Since the times of ancient Greece, popular culture has entertained stories of artificial humans. Our modern fears about the "otherness" of androids and human replicants have much in common with…
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Since the early days of silent film accompaniment, the piano has played an integral part in the history of cinema. By examining depictions of the piano onscreen, readers will begin…
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Explores the origin of Gothic cinema in art and literature, tracing its connection to the Gothic revival in architecture, the Gothic novel, landscape, ruins, Egyptology, occultism, sexuality, the mythology of…
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Ancient Egypt has long been a source of fascination in Western popular culture. This work traces how films were inspired by writers like Bram Stoker and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle…
The present work is a reprint of the illustrated case bound edition … first published in 2006 by McFarland –T.p. verso.
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…
This book takes a chronological, film-by-film approach to all of Hammer’s thrillers. Each chapter takes a particular theme around which to approach the films in question, exploring their literary ancestry…
Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a prolific and influential novelist, inspiring Edgar Allan Poe, H. Rider Haggard and Madame Blavatsky, among others. This book covers Bulwer-Lytton’s novels in detail, exploring their influence…
Tells how Hammer Films commissioned composers at the cutting-edge of European musical modernism to write their movie scores, introducing the avant-garde into popular culture via the enormously successful venue of…
Music has often attempted to express mystical states of mind, cosmic harmony, the demonic and the divine. This wide-ranging survey explores how such film music works and uncovers its origins…
Poe exerted a profound influence on 20th-century culture, and continues to inspire composers, filmmakers, writers and artists. Popularly considered a horror writer, Poe was a philosophical aesthete, satirist, hoaxer, psychologist…
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…
Film is a kind of magic, a world of shadows and light, where anything is possible and the dead come back to life. Movie Magick explores the way in which…
British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features. This volume analyses the evocative language and…
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…
The aesthetic of body horror has its origins in the ideas of the Marquis de Sade and the existential philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche. This book examines the…
