Description: Further DetailsTitle: Fear ItselfCondition: NewSubtitle: Horror on Screen and in Reality During the Depression and World War IIAuthor: Melvin E. MatthewsFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0786443138EAN: 9780786443130ISBN: 9780786443130Publisher: McFarland & Co IncGenre: Films & TVRelease Date: 07/15/2009Description: This book demonstrates how horror films of the 1930s and 1940s reflected specific events and personalities of the era, most notably the Great Depression and World War II. Beginning with Dracula and Frankenstein (1931), it relates the many ways that horror films and society intersected: Franklin D. Roosevelt's skepticism toward conventional wisdom and the public's distrust of experts was mirrored in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Murders in the Rue Morgue; the freaks in Tod Browning's 1932 film of the same name revolted against the powerful people of the circus, much like the Bonus Army protested the sufferings of the Depression; King Kong's rampage on New York personified the anti-New York sentiment in the nation at large; Lon Chaney Jr.'s Wolf Man symbolized the experience of his creator, Curt Siodmak, as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 11mmItem Weight: 386gRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Fear Itself
Title: Fear Itself
Subtitle: Horror on Screen and in Reality During the Depression and World W
ISBN-10: 0786443138
EAN: 9780786443130
ISBN: 9780786443130
Genre: Films & TV
Release Date: 07/15/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Fear Itself : Horror on Screen and in Reality During the Depression and World War II
Publisher: Mcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication Year: 2009
Subject: Film / Genres / Horror, Film / General, Military / World War II, Anxieties & Phobias, Popular Culture
Item Height: 0.4 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Author: Melvin E. Matthews Jr., Melvin E. Matthews
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science, Self-Help, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
