ReFocus: The Films of William Castle

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2019
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5510-7 (ISBN)

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Often described as ‘the Master of Gimmicks’, William Castle is best known for the outrageous publicity stunts that characterised his genre films in the 1950s and ‘60s, including offers for an insurance policy against death by fright, vibrating seats, a skeleton that flew over the audience, and a ‘punishment poll’ to determine a film’s conclusion. But far from being ‘the world’s craziest filmmaker’, Castle was also a dependable studio director who made more than 50 films between 1944 and 1974, and who produced films for Orson Welles and Roman Polanski. ReFocus: The Films of William Castle assembles fourteen essays on the full sweep of Castle’s career, including his horror films, westerns, film noirs and more. With an influence felt on directors like Joe Dante, Robert Zemeckis and John Waters, this volume reappraises Castle’s legacy as an innovator as much as a showman.

Murray Leeder is Instructor in Film Studies at the University of Calgary.

Introduction: The Many Castles

Section 1: The Early Castle

Hugh S. Manon, "When Strangers Marry: Film Noir as Mediated Gothic"

Zachary Rearick, "Gender in William Castle’s Westerns"

Section 2: The Gimmick Cycle

Anthony Thomas McKenna, "He Earned Our Forgiveness: William Castle and American Movie Showmanship"

Murray Leeder, "Collective Screams: William Castle and the Gimmick Film"

Beth Kattelman, "Dying to See It: Death by Fright and William Castle’s Macabre"

Eliot Bessette, "How to View 13 Ghosts"

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, "The Face of Horror: Mr. Sardonicus and the Mask as Technological Interface"

Section 3: Castle, Authorship and Genre

Steffen Hantke, "A Sick Mind in Search of a Monstrous Body: William Castle and the Emergence of Psychological Horror in the 1960s"

Michael Brodski and Caroline Langhorst, "‘What a Wicked Game to Play?’: Playfulness, Generic Hybridity, and Cult Appeal in Castle’s 1960s Films"

Michael Petitti, “Where Did Our Love Go?” The Case of William Castle’s The Night Walker

Section 4: Castle’s Legacy

Peter Marra, "Homo/cidal: William Castle’s 1960s Killer Queers"

Kate J. Russell, "The Cinematic Pandemonium of William Castle and John Waters"

Erscheinungsdatum	02.01.2020
Reihe/Serie	ReFocus: The American Directors Series
Zusatzinfo	15 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-5510-7 / 1474455107
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-5510-7 / 9781474455107
Zustand	Neuware