Conference Report: Le studio Hammer, laboratoire de l’horreur moderne

This exciting conference was the first entirely devoted to the British exploitation film studio in France. Though the studio had existed since the mid-1940s (after a few productions in the mid-1930s), it gained notoriety in the mid-1950s with a series of readaptations of classic Gothic novels previ...

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Auteur principal: Roche, David
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Miranda 2016
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Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:This exciting conference was the first entirely devoted to the British exploitation film studio in France. Though the studio had existed since the mid-1940s (after a few productions in the mid-1930s), it gained notoriety in the mid-1950s with a series of readaptations of classic Gothic novels previously adapted for the theater in the 1920s and by Universal studios in the 1930s. Hammer Films is mostly famous for the films of Terence Fisher, who has gained the status of auteur with The Curse o...