Ian Fryer - The British Horror Film: From the Silent to the Multiplex

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Acknowledgements

The following books have been especially helpful in my research: The Hammer Story by Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes (Titan Books, London, 1997); English Gothic: Classic Horror Cinema 18972015 by Jonathan Rigby (Signum Books, England, 2015); Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History by Jonathan Rigby (Reynolds and Hearn, London, 2001); The Peter Cushing Companion by David Miller (Reynolds and Hearn, London, 2000); Vincent Price: The Art of Fear by Denis Meikle (Reynold and Hearn, London, 2003); Boris Karloff: More than a Monster by Stephen Jacobs (Tomahawk Press, Sheffield, 2010); Hammer Films: The Bray Studios Years by Wayne Kinsey (Reynolds and Hearn, London, 2002); Beasts in the Cellar: The Exploitation Film Career of Tony Tenser by John Hamilton (FAB Press, Godalming, Surrey, 2005); Censored: The Story of Film Censorship in Britain by Tom Dewe Matthews (Chatto and Windus, 1994); and Gothic Literature by Andrew Smith (Edinburgh University Press, 2007).

Professor John Bowdens work on Romantic and gothic Victorian literature on the British Library website was also extremely useful: www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/gothic-motifs

CONTENTS

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Hearn, M, and Barnes, A., The Hammer Story (London Titan Books, 1997)

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This book is dedicated to all the people who have helped and inspired me along the way, especially the following:

Jay Slater, the worlds most patient and understanding editor, along with Alan, George, and Josh at Fonthill Media.

Jackie, my partner, who has had to watch a lot of very strange movies over the past couple of years, only occasionally asking Why are we watching this, again?

David and Simon, for helping to keep me hydrated and reminding me that there is a world beyond old movies.

Mike Jones, for being just amazing while I have been snowed under working on this book.

Ziva the dog, for giving me an excuse to occasionally get out from behind various screens and see the outside world.

Finally, Arthur Crabtree, the best film director ever to emerge from Shipley, West Yorkshire. Seeing his incredible Fiend without a Face via a chattering 8-mm film projector some thirty years ago was my first clue that there was a world of incredible little-known films outside the mainstream.

Endnotes

Chapter 3

.Hollywood studios also produced Gothic romantic melodramas during this period, most notably producer Samuel Goldwyns popular adaptations of Wuthering Heights (1939) and Jane Eyre (1943).

.Matthews, T. D., Censored (London: Chatto & Windus, 1994), p. 143.

.Holland, S., The Trials of Hank Janson (Surrey: Telos Publishing, 2004).

.Horne, P., and Swaab, P. (eds), Thorold Dickinson: A World of Film (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008).

Chapter 4

.Pimlott, B., Harold Wilson (London: HarperCollins, 1992), pp. 118120.

.Broccoli, A. R., and Zec, D., When the Snow Melts: The Autobiography of Cubby Broccoli (London: Boxtree Books, 1998), p. 106.

Chapter 5

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.Sangster, J., Inside Hammer: Behind the Scenes at the Legendary Film Studio (Surrey: Reynolds and Hearn, 2001), pp. 5859.

, 27 August 2010.

.The Times (London, England), Wednesday 20 April 1960, p. 8.

Francis, F., and Dalton, T., Freddie Francis: The Straight Story from Moby Dick to Glory, a Memoir (Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2013), pp. 129131.

Chapter 6

.Cohn, N., Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock (Boston: Da Capo Press, 1996), p. 15.

.Francis, F., and Dalton, T., Freddie Francis: The Straight Story from Moby Dick to Glory, a Memoir (Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2013), p. 133.

.Ibid., p. 139.

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Chapter 7

.Porter, R., London: A Social History (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994), p. 102.

.Hollywood studios also produced Gothic romantic melodramas during this period, most notably producer Samuel Goldwyns popular adaptations of Wuthering Heights (1939) and Jane Eyre (1943).

.Matthews, T. D., Censored (London: Chatto & Windus, 1994), p. 143.

.Hamilton, J.,