The Mummy on Screen
Title | The Mummy on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Basil Glynn |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2019-11-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1350129380 |
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.
The Mummy
Title | The Mummy PDF eBook |
Author | Max Allan Collins |
Publisher | Berkley |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780425169483 |
Now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures starring Brendan Fraser. Dashing American and legionnaire Rick O'Connell is in Egypt looking for a good time. His discovery of the Lost City of the Dead is a fluke--but to British librarian Evelyn Carnarvon, it's the archaeological find of the century. Leading Evelyn's expedition deep into the Sahara isn't exactly easy money, as Rick comes face to face with an evil from long ago returned from the grave with a taste for human flesh.
The Mummy on Screen
Title | The Mummy on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Basil Glynn |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2019-11-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1350129372 |
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.
The Mummy Unwrapped
Title | The Mummy Unwrapped PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas M. Feramisco |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2007-11-14 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0786437340 |
The mummy came to life in the 1940s out of Universal Pictures' need to produce quick turnaround, low budget "B" movies. Universal produced The Mummy's Hand, The Mummy's Tomb, The Mummy's Ghost, and The Mummy's Curse (originally The Mummy's Return) and thus created a popular franchise that is still supported today by a following of loyal fans. (Universal was prompted to produce a remake of its Mummy films in 1999.) This book is devoted entirely to Universal's Mummy movies of the 1940s. It reveals lost action and dialogue by analyzing scenes that were edited out days before The Mummy's Hand was released to theaters, treats readers to other dialogue that was filmed and then cut down to almost nothing before being included in the films, and compares and contrasts the original story of The Mummy's Return to the final shooting script of what was later renamed The Mummy's Curse. Each of the films has its own chapter, and chapters are also devoted to the actors who played the heroes, heroines, high priests, victims, and mummies in the films, and to the filmmakers who brought the mummies to life.
The Mummy
Title | The Mummy PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Jabcuga |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN | 9781600102523 |
"Originally published as The Mummy: the rise and fall of Xango's ax Issues #1-4."
Barra and Zaman: Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy
Title | Barra and Zaman: Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy PDF eBook |
Author | Youssef Rakha |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 121 |
Release | 2020-12-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3030613542 |
Brilliantly introduced by Nezar Andary, this book is a work of creative nonfiction that approaches writing on film in a fresh and provocative way. It draws on academic, literary, and personal material to start a dialogue with the Egyptian filmmaker Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy (1969), tracing the many meanings of Egypt’s postcolonial modernity and touching on Arab, Muslim, and ancient Egyptian identities through watching the film.
The Dwellers on the Nile
Title | The Dwellers on the Nile PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Egypt |
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