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Icons of grief : Val Lewton's home front pictures

Author: Alexander Nemerov
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
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Alexander Numerov's study looks at the melancholic horror films Val Lewton made between 1942 and 1946 and finds them to be powerful commentaries on the American home front during World War II.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Nemerov, Alexander.
Icons of grief.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005
(OCoLC)607371749
Named Person: Val Lewton; Val Lewton
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Alexander Nemerov
ISBN: 0520240995 9780520240995 0520241002 9780520241008
OCLC Number: 56840278
Description: xii, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Madonna of the back yard : Simone Simon and Ann Carter in The curse of the cat people --
The power of the minor actor : Skelton Knaggs in The ghost ship --
Stillness and recollection : Darby Jones in I walked with a zombie --
This pretty world : Glenn Vernon in Bedlam.
Other Titles: Val Lewton and the home front
Responsibility: Alexander Nemerov.
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Looks at the haunting, melancholy horror films Val Lewton made between 1942 and 1946 and finds them to be powerful commentaries on the American home front during WWII. This study demonstrates the  Read more...

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