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Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema
Angela M. Smith
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Hardback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, 26 illus. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most critics have interpreted these traits as symptoms of sexual repression or as metaphors for other kinds of marginalized identities, yet Angela M. Smith conducts a richer investigation into the period's social and cultural preoccupations. She finds instead a fascination with eugenics and physical and cognitive debility in the narrative and spectacle of classic 1930s horror, heightened by the viewer's desire for visions of vulnerability and transformation. Reading such films as Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), Dr. ... Read more
Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thrilled audiences with their sheer grotesqueness. Most critics have interpreted these traits as symptoms of sexual repression or as metaphors for other kinds of marginalized identities, yet Angela M. Smith conducts a richer investigation into the period's social and cultural preoccupations. She finds instead a fascination with eugenics and physical and cognitive debility in the narrative and spectacle of classic 1930s horror, heightened by the viewer's desire for visions of vulnerability and transformation. Reading such films as Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), Dr. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Series
Film and Culture Series
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231157162
SKU
V9780231157162
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About Angela M. Smith
Angela M. Smith is assistant professor of English and gender studies at the University of Utah. Her essays have appeared in Post Script and College Literature as well as in the anthologies Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema and Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the Thirties.
Reviews for Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema
... Hideous Progeny is a valuable contribution to discussions of disability, spectacle, and eugenics in genre fiction and film.
Hannah Tweed, University of Glasgow H-Net Reviews
Hannah Tweed, University of Glasgow H-Net Reviews