Inicio > Artes > Cine, televisión y radio > Películas, cine > Werewolves! A Study of Lycanthropes in Film, Folklore and Literature
Werewolves! A Study of Lycanthropes in Film, Folklore and Literature

Werewolves! A Study of Lycanthropes in Film, Folklore and Literature

Thomas McNulty

30,09 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
BearManor Media
Año de edición:
2011
Materia
Películas, cine
ISBN:
9781593936754
30,09 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Sobre IBD

Something stirs in the darkness and pads along the moonlit path...Werewolf stories have long captivated film audiences and lovers of pulp fiction.Thomas McNulty’s Werewolves! explores the genesis for this cultural phenomenondating back centuries when stories of shape shifters and wolf-men werepredominant in folk tales. The book traces the origins of lycanthropy inmythology through modern times. Included are discussions of wolf mythology andthe importance of the wolf symbol around the globe. Included is an examinationof key werewolf stories and novels with an emphasis on popular fiction and pulpfiction. This is followed by a survey of the Hollywood films with chaptersdevoted to the Wolf-Man films starring Lon Chaney Jr. and the groundbreakingSpanish werewolf films of Paul Naschy. The survey of films includes titles fromHollywood’s Golden Age to present times with commentary on over 70 werewolffilms. The work includes a bibliography, filmography and index. Illustrated withrare photographs.Thomas McNulty is the author of the critically acclaimed biography, Errol Flynn,and the novels Trail of the Burned Man, Wind Rider, Death Rides a Palomino, andShowdown at Snakebite Creek. His feature articles have appeared in numerousmagazines and periodicals. He lives in Crystal Lake, Illinois with his wife,Jan, and daughter, Brenna.

Artículos relacionados

  • Great Thriller Films
    Scott V. Palmer / Scott VPalmer
    Great Thriller Films provides a look at some four dozen films made between 1941 and 1988, and includes complete cast lists, directorial credits, running times, plot synopses, and pictures, many of the latter which have never been seen anywhere else.  Films included in this book are theose made in Hollywood or Great Britain, ranging from classics like Gaslight (1944) and Key Lar...
  • The Invaders
    Scott V Palmer
    The Invaders, the popular 1967-68 Television show, starred Roy Thinnes as architect David Vincent.  Late one night, Vincent observes an alien space ship laning in a lonely area.  He knows the invaders are here.  Now, he must convince a disbelieving world that the aliens not only have come to earth, but have taken human form.  They have infiltrated the ranks of government, muili...
  • RAIDERS!
    ALAN EISENSTOCK
    ...
    Disponible

    19,95 €

  • The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
    Scott V. Palmer / Scott VPalmer
    Alfred Hitchcock, known as The master of Suspense, was certainly one of the greatest and most influential directors in the history of motion pictures.  This book looks at 55 feature length films that Hitchcock directed between 1925 and 1976. Beginning with the silent film The Pleasure Garden (1925) and finishing up with Family Plot (1976), this work lists complete cast listings...
  • THE CINEMA OF HAYAO MIYAZAKI
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    THE CINEMA OF HAYAO MIYAZAKIREVISED AND UPDATED, WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS Born on January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Hayao Miyazaki is known as the ’Japanese Disney’, a filmmaker as revered - and as popular - as Walt Disney or Steven Spielberg. Miyazaki, in short, is a true phenomenon in contemporary animation and in world cinema. Hayao Miyazaki’s movies include Princess Mononoke, Spi...
  • World War II Films of the 1940s
    Scott V. Palmer / Scott VPalmer
    World War II Films of the 1940s has been written to provide a comprehensive study of more than two dozen films, made in Great Britain and America from 1940-49.  Included are films dealing with the Army, Navy, and Air Force.  Complete cast lists are provided, along with film director credits, running time, and synopses of each motion picture.  A number of vever before seen photo...

Otros libros del autor

  • Showdown At Snakebite Creek
    Thomas McNulty
    Seven years earlier Cole Tibb’s father had been murdered alongside Snakebite Creek and now Cole wants justice. He returns to Raven Flats looking to settle the old grudge. But settling a grudge and surviving are two very different things. Soon he finds himself opposing a greedy landowner named Carleton Usher, his ruthless sons, and a merciless group of killers. The arrival of en...
    Disponible

    12,33 €

  • Trail of the Burned Man
    Thomas McNulty
    Re-released, this definitive edition of Trail of the Burned Man benefits from a fresh line edit and includes special features, including a glimpse into the story behind the book, and classic cover artwork by Walter Stackpool. Paperback only! No e-books or digital versions will be produced.Trail of the Burned Man is a vivid adventure in the old west!When Rafe Morgan rides into a...
    Disponible

    12,30 €

  • Wind Rider
    Thomas McNulty
    When Hank Benteen rides into a Wyoming valley, he saves a homesteader?s life and that of his two children, but there?s a range war brewing and some of the cowboys are hiding a murderous secret. Suddenly, Benteen finds himself involved in a deadly conflict as he resolves to help the homesteaders against impossible odds. Before long, Benteen finds himself the target of two greedy...
    Disponible

    12,34 €

  • Errol Flynn
    Thomas McNulty
    Errol Flynn set the standard for the modern action hero in films like The Adventures of Robin Hood, Dodge City, and The Sea Hawk. This biography follows Flynn from his birth in Tasmania, Australia, in 1909, to his death in Vancouver, Canada, in 1959. Included is analysis of his films, discussion of the 1943 rape trial that changed his life, a survey of the FBI’s infamous sur...
    Disponible

    44,48 €