Titlebook: British Gothic Cinema; Barry Forshaw Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013 cinema.film.television

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The Modern Age: Horror Redux, the genre; millennial horror had a pervasive influence, with an end-of-the-century (and end of time) mindset creating and feeding a fatalistic (often apocalyptic) strain. Visions of apocalypse tied into the revival of the zombie movie, while the massive new success of the vampire genre, both in the

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Undermining British Cinema: Gothic Horror in the 1930s and 1940s and Censorship,lty as diversion’, and the films were identified as indexes of depravity; Gothic horror elements incorporated into non-genre or other film products of the day were less vilified, as public disapprobation had already found its target. And who could defend such films?

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One-Shots and Short Runs: The Black Sheep of Gothic Cinema,red Shaughnessy’s . (1957), Sidney J. Furie’s . (1961) and Lindsay Shonteff’s . Night-inspired . (1964), along with some fully realised, imaginative pieces — all offering singular experiences rather than fleshing out elements of over-extended series — with, admittedly, some sense of exhaustion. And

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Fresh Blood or Exhaustion?: The 1970s to the Turn of the Century,eel) as conservative (with a capital ‘C’); an analogy might be found in the mixed signals issued by such right-wing British newspapers as the . and the . There is the divided attitude towards the establishment: a certain historical deference set against a nagging feeling that the establishment — tho

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The Modern Age: Horror Redux,ing applied to the field. But it should be noted that when the direction of so many films in the Gothic genre is dispiritingly pedestrian, aficionados are wont to leap upon the most evanescent fragment of inspiration and inventiveness, possibly praising these felicities more than they merit (perhaps

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