Author: Randy Palmer
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147660729X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Paul Blaisdell was the man behind the monsters in such movies as The She Creature, Invasion of the Saucer Men, Not of This Earth, It! Terror from Beyond Space and many others. Working in primarily low-budget films, Blaisdell was forced to rely on greasepaint, guts and, most importantly, an unbounded imagination for his creations. From his inauspicious beginning through The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959), the construction of Blaisdell’s monsters and the making of the movies in which they appeared are fully detailed here. Blaisdell’s work in the early monster magazines of the 1960s is also covered.
Paul Blaisdell, Monster Maker
Author: Randy Palmer
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147660729X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Paul Blaisdell was the man behind the monsters in such movies as The She Creature, Invasion of the Saucer Men, Not of This Earth, It! Terror from Beyond Space and many others. Working in primarily low-budget films, Blaisdell was forced to rely on greasepaint, guts and, most importantly, an unbounded imagination for his creations. From his inauspicious beginning through The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959), the construction of Blaisdell’s monsters and the making of the movies in which they appeared are fully detailed here. Blaisdell’s work in the early monster magazines of the 1960s is also covered.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147660729X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Paul Blaisdell was the man behind the monsters in such movies as The She Creature, Invasion of the Saucer Men, Not of This Earth, It! Terror from Beyond Space and many others. Working in primarily low-budget films, Blaisdell was forced to rely on greasepaint, guts and, most importantly, an unbounded imagination for his creations. From his inauspicious beginning through The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959), the construction of Blaisdell’s monsters and the making of the movies in which they appeared are fully detailed here. Blaisdell’s work in the early monster magazines of the 1960s is also covered.
Cinefantastique
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy films
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy films
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Forgotten Horrors Vol. 6
Author: Michael Price
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781481167826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Michael H. Price's FORGOTTEN HORRORS series of film encyclopedias lurches along through the 1950s with FORGOTTEN HORRORS VOL. 6: UP FROM THE DEPTHS -- a chronicle of the horror-movie revival of 1955-1957, with insightful contributions from Jan Alan Henderson and John Wooley. The rise of Roger Corman and Ray Harryhausen, the trendsetting teenage-monster cycle of Herman Cohen, the obsessions with gigantism of Bert I. Gordon, the emergence of Hammer Films, the unheralded genius of monster-maker Paul Blaisdell -- all are here, along with studies and sketches of numerous films of both prominence and obscurity. Price's unique study of the relationship between the horror-comics scare of the post-WWII years and the resurgence of horror in film rounds out the package -- a 300-page marvel of pop-cultural insights, perceptive social criticism, and irresponsible cheap thrills.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781481167826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Michael H. Price's FORGOTTEN HORRORS series of film encyclopedias lurches along through the 1950s with FORGOTTEN HORRORS VOL. 6: UP FROM THE DEPTHS -- a chronicle of the horror-movie revival of 1955-1957, with insightful contributions from Jan Alan Henderson and John Wooley. The rise of Roger Corman and Ray Harryhausen, the trendsetting teenage-monster cycle of Herman Cohen, the obsessions with gigantism of Bert I. Gordon, the emergence of Hammer Films, the unheralded genius of monster-maker Paul Blaisdell -- all are here, along with studies and sketches of numerous films of both prominence and obscurity. Price's unique study of the relationship between the horror-comics scare of the post-WWII years and the resurgence of horror in film rounds out the package -- a 300-page marvel of pop-cultural insights, perceptive social criticism, and irresponsible cheap thrills.
Fantastic Cinema Subject Guide
Author: Bryan Senn
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
About 2,500 genre films are entered under more than 100 subject headings, ranging from abominable snowmen through dreamkillers, rats, and time travel, to zombies, with a brief essay on each topic: development, highlights, and trends. Each film entry shows year of release, distribution company, country of origin, director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, cast credits, plot synopsis and critical commentary.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
About 2,500 genre films are entered under more than 100 subject headings, ranging from abominable snowmen through dreamkillers, rats, and time travel, to zombies, with a brief essay on each topic: development, highlights, and trends. Each film entry shows year of release, distribution company, country of origin, director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, cast credits, plot synopsis and critical commentary.
The Monster Maker
Author: Bill Willingham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970484185
Category : Beowulf
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970484185
Category : Beowulf
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tech-noir
Author: Paul Meehan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This critical study traces the common origins of film noir and science fiction films, identifying the many instances in which the two have merged to form a distinctive subgenre known as Tech-Noir. From the German Expressionist cinema of the late 1920s to the present-day cyberpunk movement, the book examines more than 100 films in which the common noir elements of crime, mystery, surrealism, and human perversity intersect with the high technology of science fiction. The author also details the hybrid subgenre's considerable influences on contemporary music, fashion, and culture.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This critical study traces the common origins of film noir and science fiction films, identifying the many instances in which the two have merged to form a distinctive subgenre known as Tech-Noir. From the German Expressionist cinema of the late 1920s to the present-day cyberpunk movement, the book examines more than 100 films in which the common noir elements of crime, mystery, surrealism, and human perversity intersect with the high technology of science fiction. The author also details the hybrid subgenre's considerable influences on contemporary music, fashion, and culture.
The Great Monster Magazines
Author: Bobb Cotter
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This work provides a critical overview of monster magazines from the 1950s to the 1970s. The term monster magazine is a blanket term, which, for the purposes of this study is used to describe both magazines that focus primarily on popular horror movies and magazines that contain stories featuring monsters which are illustrated in comic book style but printed in black and white.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This work provides a critical overview of monster magazines from the 1950s to the 1970s. The term monster magazine is a blanket term, which, for the purposes of this study is used to describe both magazines that focus primarily on popular horror movies and magazines that contain stories featuring monsters which are illustrated in comic book style but printed in black and white.
We Belong Dead
Author: Gary J. Svehla
Publisher: Midnight Marquee Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A look at the Frankenstein Monster in film.
Publisher: Midnight Marquee Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A look at the Frankenstein Monster in film.
BFI Film and Television Handbook
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description