Refocus: The Films of William Castle

ISBN-13: 9781474424264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Murray Leeder

Opis

With an influence felt on directors like Joe Dante, Robert Zemeckis and John Waters, this volume reappraises Castle's legacy as an innovator as much as a showman.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Many Castles; Section 1: The Early Castle; When Strangers Marry: Film Noir as Mediated Gothic, Hugh S. Manon; Gender in William Castle’s Westerns, Zachary Rearick; Section 2: The Gimmick Cycle; He Earned Our Forgiveness: William Castle and American Movie Showmanship, Anthony Thomas McKenna; Collective Screams: William Castle and the Gimmick Film, Murray Leeder; Dying to See It: Death by Fright and William Castle’s Macabre, Beth Kattelman; How to View 13 Ghosts, Eliot Bessette; The Face of Horror: Mr. Sardonicus and the Mask as Technological Interface, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas; Section 3: Castle, Authorship and Genre; A Sick Mind in Search of a Monstrous Body: William Castle and the Emergence of Psychological Horror in the 1960s, Steffen Hantke; 'What a Wicked Game to Play?’: Playfulness, Generic Hybridity, and Cult Appeal in Castle’s 1960s Films, Michael Brodski and Caroline Langhorst; ‘Where Did Our Love Go?’: The Case of William Castle’s The Night Walker, Michael Petitti; Section 4: Castle’s Legacy; Homo/cidal: William Castle’s 1960s Killer Queers, Peter Marra; The Cinematic Pandemonium of William Castle and John Waters, Kate J. Russell