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Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career

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McFarland, Nov 1, 2003 - Performing Arts - 571 pages
Cat People (1942) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943) established Val Lewton's hauntingly graceful style where suggestion was often used in place of explicit violence. His stylish B thrillers were imitated by a generation of filmmakers such as Richard Wallace, William Castle, and even Walt Disney in his animated Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949). Through interviews with many of Lewton's associates (including his wife and son) and extensive research, his life and output are thoroughly examined.
  

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Contents

Preface
3
Selznick and Lewton
43
The Orson Welles Connection
70
FIVE Staking the Territory
88
six Cat People
121
Walked with a Zombie
141
EIGHT The Leopard Man
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NINE The Seventh Victim
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TWELVE Youth Runs Wild and Mademoiselle Fifi
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THIRTEEN Isle of the Dead
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FOURTEEN The Body Snatcher
281
FIFTEEN Bedlam
305
SIXTEEN Fellow Travelers
326
SEVENTEEN The Sincerest Form of Flattery
362
EIGHTEEN Closed Doors
399
NINETEEN Jacques Tourneur
419

TEN The Ghost Ship
202
ELEVEN The Curse of the Cat People
222
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About the author (2003)

Bansak is a high school English teacher.

Robert L. Wise lives in Colorado.

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TitleFearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career
AuthorEdmund G. Bansak
ContributorRobert Wise
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherMcFarland, 2003
ISBN0786417099, 9780786417094
Length571 pages
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Fiction / Horror
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