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  • Unlocking Dracula A.D. 1972
    David Huckvale
    Poorly received upon its release, Dracula A.D. 1972 has since evolved into a controversial cult classic. This book, the first dedicated solely to the film, analyzes the political, social, and cinematic contexts in which the film was created. Key themes explored include the occult revival of the early 1970s, the psycho-geography of the Chelsea neighborhood where the story is ...
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    58,48 €

  • Artificial Intelligence in the Movies
    David Huckvale
    Since the times of ancient Greece, popular culture has entertained stories of artificial humans. Our modern fears about the 'otherness' of androids and human replicants have much in common with fears of the Doppelganger, a mythological harbinger of death. Throughout the twentieth century, 'AI' technologies have developed at a rapid pace, bringing us face to face with these a...
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    71,97 €

  • The Piano on Film
    David Huckvale
    Since the early days of silent film accompaniment, the piano has played an integral part in the history of cinema. Film’s fascination with the piano, both in soundtracks and onscreen as a status symbol and icon of popular romanticism, offers a revealing opportunity to chart the changing perception of the instrument. From Mozart to Elton John, this book surveys the cultural h...
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    64,85 €

  • Terrors of the Flesh
    David Huckvale
    The horror and psychological denial of our mortality, along with the corruptibility of our flesh, are persistent themes in drama. Body horror films have intensified these themes in increasingly graphic terms. The aesthetic of body horror has its origins in the ideas of the Marquis de Sade and the existential philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, all of...
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    63,59 €

  • Dirk Bogarde
    David Huckvale
    English actor Dirk Bogarde dominated the films in which he starred. Exploring the tension between his matinee idol appeal and his own closeted sexuality, this book focuses on the wide variety of genres in which he worked, and the highly charged interaction between his life and his roles. Beginning with an expose of gay life in post-war Britain and his relationship with par...
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    57,57 €

  • Movie Magick
    David Huckvale
    'Magick' as defined by Aleister Crowley is 'the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.' This book explores expressions of movie magick in classic occult films like Hammer’s adaptation of Dennis Wheatley’s The Devil Rides Out and modern occult revival movies. These films are inspired by the aesthetics of fin de siecle decadence, the symbolist writ...
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    57,50 €

  • A Green and Pagan Land
    David Huckvale
    British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features. The myth-inspired writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Algernon Blackwood, Aleister Crowley, Lord Dunsany and even Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows informed later British films and television dramas such as The O...
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    42,86 €

  • Music for the Superman
    David Huckvale
    Friedrich Nietzsche regarded himself as the most musical philosopher--he played the piano, wrote his own compositions and espoused a philosophy encouraging all to dance for joy. Central to his life and his ideas were the music and personality of Richard Wagner, whom he both loved and loathed at different times of his life. Nietzsche had considerable influence on composers, m...
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    57,44 €

  • A Dark and Stormy Oeuvre
    David Huckvale
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton--who coined the terms 'the great unwashed' and 'the pen is mightier than the sword'--is best remembered for persuading Dickens to change the ending of Great Expectations; but Lord Lytton was a prolific and influential novelist in his own right, inspiring Edgar Allan Poe, H. Rider Haggard and Madame Blavatsky, among others. His radicalism was applauded by...
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    57,31 €

  • Poe Evermore
    David Huckvale
    Edgar Allan Poe exerted a profound influence on many aspects of 20th century culture, and continues to inspire composers, filmmakers, writers and artists. Popularly thought of as a 'horror' writer, Poe was also a philosophical aesthete, a satirist, a hoaxer, a psychologist and a prophet of the anxieties and preoccupations of the modern world. Alphabetically arranged, this bo...
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    43,93 €

  • Hammer Films’ Psychological Thrillers, 1950-1972
    David Huckvale
    Hammer Film’s is justly famous for Gothic horror but the company also excelled in the psychological thriller. Influenced by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Alfred Hitchcock, Hammer created its own approach to this genre in some of the company’s very best films. This book takes a chronological, film-by-film approach to all of Hammer’s thrillers. Well-known classics such as Seth H...
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    43,88 €

  • The Occult Arts of Music
    David Huckvale
    Occult traditions have inspired musical ingenuity for centuries. From the Pythagorean concept of a music of the spheres to the occult subculture of 20th-century pop and rock, music has often attempted to express mystical states of mind, cosmic harmony, the demonic and the divine--nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the music for films such as The Mephisto Waltz, The Devil Ride...
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    57,48 €

  • Visconti and the German Dream
    David Huckvale
    Luchino Visconti’s trilogy of films Ludwig, Death in Venice and The Damned explore the complex relationship between the themes and ideals of German Romanticism and their impact on the catastrophe of the Third Reich. The personality and works of Richard Wagner to a large extent epitomize German Romanticism as a whole, while the writings of Thomas Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche ...
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    57,44 €

  • Ancient Egypt in the Popular Imagination
    David Huckvale
    Ancient Egypt has long been a source of fascination in Western popular culture. Movies such as The Mummy (1932, 1959), Biblical epics like The Ten Commandments (1923, 1956), and pharaonic films like Cleopatra (1934, 1963) and The Egyptian (1954) have all recreated the glamour and allure of Egyptian art and civilization for Western audiences. This work traces how these and ot...
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    51,43 €

  • James Bernard, Composer to Count Dracula
    David Huckvale
    Composers give a unique and powerful voice to stories on the big screen. Those who work principally with one genre may leave a unique imprint. James Bernard was one such composer. From 1952 to the late 1990s, he was one of horror’s definitive and distinctive voices, scoring many of Hammer’s best-known films, including Dracula. This is a critical biography of James Bernard....
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    44,23 €

  • Touchstones of Gothic Horror
    David Huckvale
    Gothic cinema, typified by the films of Universal, Hammer, Amicus and Tigon, grew out of an aesthetic that stretches back to the 18th century and beyond, even to Shakespeare. This book explores the origin of Gothic cinema in art and literature, tracing its connection to the Gothic revival in architecture, the Gothic novel, landscape, ruins, Egyptology, occultism, sexuality, ...
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    44,10 €

  • Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde
    David Huckvale
    Music in film is often dismissed as having little cultural significance. While Hammer Film Productions is famous for such classic films as Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein, few observers have noted the innovative music that Hammer distinctively incorporated into its horror films. This book tells how Hammer commissioned composers at the cutting edge of European musical...
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    42,82 €