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Icons of Grief: Val Lewton´s Home Front Pictures
Alexander Nemerov
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Description for Icons of Grief: Val Lewton´s Home Front Pictures
Paperback. 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 film-maker's interest in those who found themselves alienated by wartime society and illuminates the dark side of the American psyche in the 1940s. Num Pages: 226 pages, 57 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJP; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
This beautifully written study 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 World War II. Alexander Nemerov focuses on the iconic, isolated figures who appear in four of Lewton's small-budget classics - "The Curse of the Cat People", "The Ghost Ship", "I Walked with a Zombie", and "Bedlam". These ghosts, outcasts, and other apparitions of sorrow crystallize the anxiety and grief experienced by Americans during the war, emotions decidedly at odds with the official insistence on courage, patriotism, and optimism. In ... Read more
This beautifully written study 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 World War II. Alexander Nemerov focuses on the iconic, isolated figures who appear in four of Lewton's small-budget classics - "The Curse of the Cat People", "The Ghost Ship", "I Walked with a Zombie", and "Bedlam". These ghosts, outcasts, and other apparitions of sorrow crystallize the anxiety and grief experienced by Americans during the war, emotions decidedly at odds with the official insistence on courage, patriotism, and optimism. In ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520241008
SKU
V9780520241008
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About Alexander Nemerov
Alexander Nemerov, Vincent Scully Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, is author of The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824 (California, 2001) and Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century America (1995).
Reviews for Icons of Grief: Val Lewton´s Home Front Pictures
"This is cultural history at its best. The author's vivid engagement with his material reveals Val Lewton in a bracing new light. Nemerov teases out relationships between film and society with supple writing, imagination, and skill. A critical tour de force." - David M. Lubin, author of Shooting Kennedy "Icons of Grief is a brilliantly conceived and successfully executed filmmaker ... Read more