In the long-awaited American Gothic Jonathan Rigby tells the story of the Hollywood horror film from its 19th-century beginnings through to the arrival of Vincent Price as a genre star in films like House of Wax and The Fly. This 60-year period encompasses the shadowy nightmares of the silent era,the breakthrough hits produced by Universal,Warner Bros and M-G-M in the early days of talkies,the thoughtful RKO chillers of the 1940s and the post-war boom in lurid science-fiction shockers. Out of print for more than ten years,American Gothic has been extensively revised and expanded,and is now available in hardback for the first time.
Publisher: Signum Books (Imprint of Flashpoint Media Ltd)ISBN: 9780995519138Dimensions: 234 x 182 x 32 mm
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