Forgotten Horrors series by Michael H. Price, George E. Turner, John Wooley, Jan Alan Henderson, Van Cliburn (#2-6,8,10)
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Overview: The Forgotten Horrors line of movie-reference books has grown considerably since we launched the set of uniform and expanded editions during the earlier 2010s. I’m at work just now (spring of 2015) on Forgotten Horrors Vol. 8: The Resurrection of Edgar Allan Poe, which will open at 1960 (and a lasting cycle of Poe adaptations from Roger Corman and my cousin Vincent Price).
Genre: Non Fiction | Movies > History & Criticism
Beyond the Horror Ban (#2)
The revised and expanded sequel to Michael H. Price and George E. Turner’s groundbreaking "Forgotten Horrors: The Original Volume–Except More So" covers the development of the independent movie studios’ approach to horror, weird mystery, and science fiction during a period of banishment for the genre by the British and European boards of censorship. “The notorious Horror Ban of the late 1930s accounted for some dark days in Hollywood,” says lead author Mike Price. “The British Board of Censors had been trying its level best since the late silent-era years to keep the creepier fare out of England, but the group had concentrated on individual titles, such as 1932’s Island of Lost Souls and Freaks, until a coalition developed with the European censors. The foreign market was lucrative enough for the Hollywood studios that this embargo had some teeth. Strange that the censors neglected to notice the moral lessons implicit in classic horror fiction, usually in a warning about
Dr. Turner’s House of Horrors (#3)
Michael H. Price’s acclaimed FORGOTTEN HORRORS series of film-history books backtracks to the middle 1940s for a thorough revision and expansion of FORGOTTEN HORRORS VOL. 3. Additional chapters, an entirely new set of illustrations, and fresh insights across the board make for a vivid account of how the independent horror movies dealt with World War II and its immediate aftermath.
Dreams That Money Can Buy (#4)
Michael H. Price’s FORGOTTEN HORRORS series of movie encyclopedias forges on through the 1940s with this expanded fourth volume — amended and updated from the original edition. New showcase chapter unearths significant detail on the most elusive exploitation film of the postwar years, Dwain Esper’s CURSE OF THE UBANGI, with significant assistance from the Web-based Classic Horror Film Board. The foreshadowings of the Atom Age of the 1950s run thick and deep, and so do the crossovers among horror films, science-fiction films, and film noir-styled crime melodramas.
The Atom Age (#5)
The acclaimed Forgotten Horrors series of movie-genre history and criticism lurches into the turning-point stretch of 1949-1954. This 300-plus-page study of the independent studios’ forays into horror, S-F, film noir — and some unclassifiable oddities — tackles the most conflicted and paranoid period of American cultural history in terms of such breakthrough pictures as these: Mikel Conrad’s "The Flying Saucer," the oddly matched set of George Pal’s "Destination Moon" and Kurt Neumann’s "Rocketship X-M," Edgar G. Ulmer’s "The Man from Planet X," Ivan Tors’ "Office of Scientific Investigation" trilogy, and William Cameron Menzies’ "Invaders from Mars." To say nothing of E.A. Dupont’s "The Neanderthal Man," William Castle’s exploitation-film debut "It’s a Small World," and — did somebody say, "Skipalong Rosenbloom"?! A brief flowering of science fiction and general-purpose imaginative zeal gives way to the beginnings of what genre historian Phil Hardy has called "an all-out horror revival. Forgotten Horrors Vol. 5 teams the series’ co-originator with Wes Craven biographer John Wooley and Lydecker Bros. biographer Jan Alan Henderson for a rip-snorting round-up of essential titles and long-buried rediscoveries.
Up from the Depths(#6)
Michael H. Price’s FORGOTTEN HORRORS series of film encyclopedias lurches along through the 1950s with FORGOTTEN HORRORS VOL. 6: UP FROM THE DEPTHS — a chronicle of the horror-movie revival of 1955-1957, with insightful contributions from Jan Alan Henderson and John Wooley. The rise of Roger Corman and Ray Harryhausen, the trendsetting teenage-monster cycle of Herman Cohen, the obsessions with gigantism of Bert I. Gordon, the emergence of Hammer Films, the unheralded genius of monster-maker Paul Blaisdell — all are here, along with studies and sketches of numerous films of both prominence and obscurity. Price’s unique study of the relationship between the horror-comics scare of the post-WWII years and the resurgence of horror in film rounds out the package — a 300-page marvel of pop-cultural insights, perceptive social criticism, and irresponsible cheap thrills.
The Resurrection of Edgar Allan Poe (#8)
Michael H. Price’s acclaimed genre-study series continues into the 1960s with coverage of the Vincent Price-Roger Corman cycle of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations; an examination of the international Euro-Latinate horror films; and a wealth of rediscovered titles in addition to the more familiar benchmarks.
The Missing Years (#10)
The FORGOTTEN HORRORS series of film-commentary books taps author Michael H. Price’s backlog of monographs, magazine columns and articles, and film-festival curatorial notes for a whopping 360-page anthology of materials long out-of-print. Centerpieces include surveys of Val Lewton’s acclaimed chillers of the 1940s, of Universal Pictures’ less noticeable chillers and offbeat oddities, and of Western movies indebted to the great frontier painters. The book also veers away at strategic points from the more rigidly defined horror movies to consider a wealth of art-museum topics, of comic-book artistry, and of indigenous music — all in the service of FORGOTTEN HORRORS’ original argument that "horror is where you find it." The deepened context afford a vivid portrait of Price and his late colleague, George E. Turner, as scholars of the Popular Culture who also happen to take one essential genre seriously enough to place it in a broader perspective.
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