BackCat People
(book in English)
by Kim Newman
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- One Film > Cat People
- Jacques Tourneur, analyse
- Publishing Date
- 1999
> See the more recent edition (2013) - Publisher
- BFI Publishing
- Collection
- BFI Film Classics
- Language
- English
Dimensions
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 96 pages • ? €
5.5 x 7.5 inches (14 x 19 cm) - ISBN-10
ISBN-13 - 0-85170-741-6
978-0-85170-741-9 - User Ratings
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Book Presentation:
Released in 1943, "Cat People" was the first production from the unit set up by RKO to make low-cost, high-return horror movies. Producer Val Lewton was handed the title and ordered to come up with a film to fit. He and director Jacques Tourneur created an innovative picture about a Serbian emigree in New York ("Simone Simon") who's convinced she's suffering from a hereditary curse that will transform her into a panther if her passions are aroused. Kim Newman positions this 74-minute classic in terms of the horror film genre from which it emerges and against which it rebels. Through close analysis, he teases out the layers of meaning and intent that make this at once a supernatural drama and an unusual psychological study.
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More recent edition
> From the same author:
Quatermass and the Pit (2014)
Five Million Years to Earth
by Kim Newman
(in English)
Subject: One Film > Quatermass and the Pit
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Vaudou de Jacques Tourneur (2006)
Archipel des apparitions
by Marcos Uzal
Subject: One Film > I Walked with a Zombie
Rendez-vous avec la peur (2005)
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Collective dir. François Rivière
Subject: One Film > Night of the Demon
L'invention d'un genre (2012)
le cinéma fantastique français: Ou les constructions sociales d'un objet de la cinéphilie ordinaire
Collective dir. Frédéric Gimello-Mesplomb
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