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After Dracula: The 1930s Horror Film
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After Dracula tells of films set in London music halls and Yorkshire coal mines, South Sea islands and Hungarian modernist houses of horror, with narrators that travel in space and time from contemporary Paris to ancient Egypt. Alison Peirse argues that Dracula (1931) has been canonized to the detriment of other innovative and original 1930s horror films in Europe and Amer
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Paperback, 224 pages
Published
October 31st 2013
by I. B. Tauris
(first published January 1st 2013)
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Fascinating read and collection of inspired essays about 1930s Horror movies beyond "Dracula" - author is a known University lecturer and her intention was apparently to scratch under the surface and to point at other movies made in aftermath of "Dracula" success, many of different directors, actors and film-makers in general who worked in than-new genre still uncluttered with what today we recognize as formulaic. Peirse purposely avoids any discussion about "Dracula" since tons of material was
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Some chapters were better written than other, but this taught me a lot about 1930s film culture, and has interested me in some of the films discussed.
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