04286nam 2201021 a 450 99624820570331620240418061133.00-520-94070-91-281-38562-X97866113856201-4356-5365-310.1525/9780520940703(CKB)1000000000535154(EBL)345572(OCoLC)437212144(SSID)ssj0000263884(PQKBManifestationID)11256303(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000263884(PQKBWorkID)10275267(PQKB)11236967(MiAaPQ)EBC345572(DE-B1597)520679(OCoLC)614502916(DE-B1597)9780520940703(Au-PeEL)EBL345572(CaPaEBR)ebr10229956(CaONFJC)MIL138562(dli)HEB08205(MiU)MIU01000000000000009853317(EXLCZ)99100000000053515420060831d2007 ub 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrUncanny bodies the coming of sound film and the origins of the horror genre /Robert Spadoni1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20071 online resource (204 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-25122-9 0-520-25121-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-177) and index.Includes filmography: p. 179-181.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --INTRODUCTION --1. The Uncanny Body of Early Sound Film --2. Ludicrous Objects, Textualized Responses --3. The Mystery of Dracula --4. Dracula as Uncanny Theater --5 Frankenstein and the Vats of Hollywood --CONCLUSION --Notes --Bibliography --Films Cited --IndexIn 1931 Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein, two films that inaugurated the horror genre in Hollywood cinema. These films appeared directly on the heels of Hollywood's transition to sound film. Uncanny Bodies argues that the coming of sound inspired more in these massively influential horror movies than screams, creaking doors, and howling wolves. A close examination of the historical reception of films of the transition period reveals that sound films could seem to their earliest viewers unreal and ghostly. By comparing this audience impression to the first sound horror films, Robert Spadoni makes a case for understanding film viewing as a force that can powerfully shape both the minutest aspects of individual films and the broadest sweep of film production trends, and for seeing aftereffects of the temporary weirdness of sound film deeply etched in the basic character of one of our most enduring film genres.Horror filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismSound motion picturesHistory and criticism20th century american culture.20th century american film history.american culture.american film history.american movie history.audience reception.cinema.classic horror cinema.dark.dracula.early sound film.film studies.filmmaking.frankenstein.hollywood cinema.horror genre.horror movies.intense.modality.movie studies.sound film.svengali.the hollywood review of 1929.uncanny theater.united states of america.universal pictures.vampires.ventriloquism.Horror filmsHistory and criticism.Sound motion picturesHistory and criticism.791.43/6164Spadoni Robert1964-1007257MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996248205703316Uncanny bodies2320184UNISA