Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures

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2005
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Looks at the haunting, melancholy horror films Val Lewton made between 1942 and 1946 and finds them to be powerful commentaries on the American home front during WWII. This study demonstrates the film-maker's interest in those who found themselves alienated by wartime society and illuminates the dark side of the American psyche in the 1940s.

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Looks at the haunting, melancholy horror films Val Lewton made between 1942 and 1946 and finds them to be powerful commentaries on the American home front during WWII. This study demonstrates the film-maker's interest in those who found themselves alienated by wartime society and illuminates the dark side of the American psyche in the 1940s.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 226
Edition: annotated edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 26 Aug 2005
ISBN 10: 0520241002
ISBN 13: 9780520241008

Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures

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