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Zusatztext The time has come to understand and embrace the Mummy's ongoing cultural relevance. Glynn unwraps the archetypal Mummy's relentless trajectory from ancient artefact to modern attraction! Informationen zum Autor Dr Basil Glynn is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Middlesex University, London, UK. Klappentext The Mummy is one of the most recognizable figures in horror and is as established in the popular imagination as virtually any other monster, yet the Mummy on screen has until now remained a largely overlooked figure in critical analysis of the cinema. In this compelling new study, Basil Glynn explores the history of the Mummy film, uncovering lost and half-forgotten movies along the way, revealing the cinematic Mummy to be an astonishingly diverse and protean figure with a myriad of on-screen incarnations. In the course of investigating the enduring appeal of this most 'Oriental' of monsters, Glynn traces the Mummy's development on screen from its roots in popular culture and silent cinema, through Universal Studios' Mummy movies of the 1930s and 40s, to Hammer Horror's re-imagining of the figure in the 1950s, and beyond.Focusing on the varying representations of the Mummy throughout cinema history, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach, integrating film, literature, history, and even sociology with a wide selection of films. Zusammenfassung The Mummy is one of the most recognizable figures in horror and is as established in the popular imagination as virtually any other monster! yet the Mummy on screen has until now remained a largely overlooked figure in critical analysis of the cinema. In this compelling new study! Basil Glynn explores the history of the Mummy film! uncovering lost and half-forgotten movies along the way! revealing the cinematic Mummy to be an astonishingly diverse and protean figure with a myriad of on-screen incarnations. In the course of investigating the enduring appeal of this most 'Oriental' of monsters! Glynn traces the Mummy's development on screen from its roots in popular culture and silent cinema! through Universal Studios' Mummy movies of the 1930s and 40s! to Hammer Horror's re-imagining of the figure in the 1950s! and beyond. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Author’s Notes Introduction: Death is Only the Beginning: Unravelling the Mummy on Screen Section 1: The Mummy in the West and Western Cinema 1. The Creature’s Features: Moulding the Mummy and the Mummy Movie The Oriental Mummy as Western Projection The Mummy Genre: Inter est and Disinter est 2.The Mutating Mummy: From Ancient Artefact to Modern Attraction Mummy Medicine: An Egyptian Prescription The Mummy as Memento: A Collectible Corpse The Mummy as Public Attraction: Exhumed, Examined and Exhibited Section II: The Mummy in Literature, on Stage and the Silent Screen 3.On the Page and Stage: The Mummy Movie’s Literary and Theatrical Influences The Mummy’s Tome: A Body of Literature The Rediscovery of Ancient Egypt: A Pharaoh to Remember The Mummy’s Literary Life: Electrifying Tales! Romance and the Mummy: Amorous Archaeologists and Comely Corpses Literature’s Monstrous Mummies: Dread, Despair and Doyle The Empire Strikes Back: Stoker’s Au Revoir to the Voyeur Archaeologist Playing Dead: The Mummy in the Theatre 4. Preserved on Film: The Silent Mummy o...
