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Author: Wheeler W. Dixon
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 602
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Terence Fisher brought the modern Gothic horror film to life in the second half of the twentieth century. As director John Carpenter (Halloween) notes in his introduction, "Terence Fisher and The Curse of Frankenstein was the beginning of it all for the modern horror film..."
Author: Tony Dalton
Publisher:
Published: 2021-09-15
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9781913051099
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From The Curse of Frankenstein to The Horror of Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera to The Mummy, and The Curse of the Werewolf to The Devil Rides Out, Terence Fisher was Hammer's acclaimed Gothic specialist, and is celebrated across the globe for directing many of the greatest horror movies of all time. TERENCE FISHER: Master of Gothic Cinema is the result of five years of research and writing by renowned author Tony Dalton, a long-time friend of Terence Fisher and his family. This fully authorised biography includes an introduction written by Fisher's daughter Micky Harding.
Author: Paul Leggett
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2010-06-28
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780786481118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Some critics in England and France have long maintained that British director Terence Fisher, whose films dominated world markets in the 1950s and 60s, was one of the greatest directors of fantasy films in history. Since his death in 1980, Fisher's reputation has grown from relative obscurity and his influence on the development of the modern horror film has been widely recognized. However, Fisher's importance should not be limited to the context of the fantasy and horror film genres. His films should also be recognized as expressions of his generalizations about human spirituality. This critical study of Fisher's films begins with an introduction that provides biographical information on his film career, summaries of all of the films he directed and examples of his impact on contemporary cinema. All of Fisher's films are analyzed in terms of their Christian and religious themes as well as their mythical sources. Chapters are devoted to Fisher's work on the subjects of Frankenstein, Dracula, curses (The Devil Rides Out), the ancient goddess (The Gorgon), the divided self (The Man Who Could Cheat Death) and the redeemer hero (The Stranglers of Bombay). The concluding chapter analyzes the role and influence of Biblical narratives in Fisher's films. Also included is a filmography; the work is fully indexed.
Author: Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 1800347081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book traces the entire career of the British director Terence Fisher, best known for his Gothic horror films for Hammer such as The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958). Wheeler Winston Dixon covers not only his horror films, but also his film noirs, comedies, and early work to create a full picture of Fisher's life and work.
Author: Wheeler W. Dixon
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9781800342279
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tracing the entire career of the British director Terence Fisher, best known for his Gothic horror films for Hammer - such as 'The Curse of Frankenstein' (1957) and 'Dracula' (1958) - this book covers not only his horror films, but also his film noirs, comedies, and early apprenticeship work to create a full picture of Fisher's life and work. Brimming with rare stills, interviews, and detailed analysis of Fisher's films - both for Hammer as well as his earlier work - this is the ultimate 'one-stop' book on Terence Fisher, both in his horror films, and his entire body of work, as well as his legacy to the British cinema.
Author: Peter Hutchings
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-06-01
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1526125471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Terence Fisher is best known as the director who made most of the classic Hammer horrors – including The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Devil Rides Out. But there is more to Terence Fisher than Hammer horror. In a busy twenty-five-year career, he directed fifty films, not just horrors but also thrillers, comedies, melodramas and science-fiction. This book offers an appreciation of all of Fisher's films and also gives a sense of his place in British film history. Looking at Fisher’s career as a whole not only underlines his importance as a film-maker but also casts a new, interesting light on the areas in which he worked – Gainsborough melodrama, the 1950s B film, 1960s science-fiction and, of course, Hammer, one of the most successful independent film companies in the history of British cinema.
Author: Joaquín Vallet Rodrigo
Publisher: Ediciones Cátedra
Published: 2013-09-10
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 843763167X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vinculado a la ya legendaria productora Hammer Films, para la que dirigió sus mejores películas, Terence Fisher fue un cineasta despreciado en su momento hasta que, en las últimas décadas, su obra se ha visto notablemente revalorizada y situada en el exacto lugar que merece. El cine de Fisher va mucho más allá de su aparente marco genérico. Sus ambivalentes imágenes y los vericuetos de su guión ocultan una serie de líneas temáticas que van desde la reflexión social hasta la psicológica, pasando por un tratamiento del miedo y el sexo que llegó a revolucionar el cine de terror en su momento imponiendo unas constantes de las que, a día de hoy, todavía se sirve el género. Esta monografía, la primera publicada en castellano sobre Terence Fisher, explora toda su filmografía, prestando especial atención a su primera etapa como director y analizando minuciosamente cada una de sus películas.
Author: Roman Büttner
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2008-03
Total Pages: 57
ISBN-13: 3638923460
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,6, University of Marburg (Institut f r Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Blood, Lust, and (Un)death: Vampires in American and British Cultures, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Terence Fisher's masterpiece was his 1958 movie version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. With the huge success of that film, Fisher and Hammer Films started a whole new era of horror movies. Other Dracula films were to follow. Vampirism has traditionally been associated with lust and sexuality, which becomes clear in various modern vampire movies. But this is rather an exception because the film history of blood suckers demonstrates that, when times were different, vampires were depicted differently, too. In Fisher's films, sexuality began to play a bigger role in the genre than ever before and became the key to success of each and every vampire film made by Hammer. Using two of the early Hammer movies, Dracula (1958) and its sequel Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), this paper will not only present the necessary historical background that made it all possible but will also analyze these movies with regard to the role of sexuality in them.
Author: Adam Scovell
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1800347030
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Interest in the ancient, the occult, and the "wyrd" is on the rise. The furrows of Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man), Piers Haggard (Blood on Satan's Claw), and Michael Reeves (Witchfinder General) have arisen again, most notably in the films of Ben Wheatley (Kill List), as has the Spirit of Dark of Lonely Water, Juganets, cursed Saxon crowns, spaceships hidden under ancient barrows, owls and flowers, time-warping stone circles, wicker men, the goat of Mendes, and malicious stone tapes. Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful And Things Strange charts the summoning of these esoteric arts within the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond, using theories of psychogeography, hauntology, and topography to delve into the genre's output in film, television, and multimedia as its "sacred demon of ungovernableness" rises yet again in the twenty-first century.
Author: Chris Fellner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-07-31
Total Pages: 606
ISBN-13: 1538126591
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This reference work contains entries on every film made by Hammer Films, a British studio renowned for its horror films of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. In addition, entries on people—directors, writers, producers, etc.—who have worked with the studio, as well as the stars associated with the studio, notably Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
