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Cat People

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by Kim Newman

Type: Studies
Subject: One Film > Cat People
Keywords: Jacques Tourneur, analyse
Publishing Date: 2013
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Collection: BFI Film Classics
2nd New edition
Language: English

Dimensions

Physical desc.

Paperback • 96 pages • 13,14 €
5.25 x 7.5 inches (13.5 x 19 cm)

ISBN

978-1-8445-7643-2

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Book Presentation:
Novelist and critic Kim Newman assesses the horror noir Cat People (1943), produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur. This important and influential film is considered in the light of its place in film history and as a work of ambitious horror. The new edition includes a postscript about the sequel, The Curse of the Cat People.

About the Author:
Kim Newman is a novelist, film critic, broadcaster and journalist. He is editor of The BFI Companion to Horror (1997), Science Fiction/Horror: A Sight and Sound Reader (2002) and author of the BFI TV Classic on Doctor Who (2005).

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Previous edition

Cat People (1999)

by Kim Newman

Publisher: BFI Publishing
(old edition)(in English)

Subject: One Film > Cat People

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Quatermass and the Pit (2014)

Five Million Years to Earth

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Subject: One Film > Quatermass and the Pit

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