دانلود کتاب The Mummy on Screen: Orientalism and Monstrosity in Horror Cinema

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Title Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nFigures\nAcknowledgements\nAuthor’s notes\nIntroduction: Death is only the beginning – Unravelling the Mummy on Screen\nPart 1: The Mummy in the West and in Western cinema\n Chapter 1: The creature’s features: Moulding the Mummy and the Mummy movie\n The Mummy genre: Interest and Disinterest\n Chapter 2: The Mutating Mummy: From ancient artefact to modern attraction\n Mummy medicine: An Egyptian prescription\n The Mummy as memento: A collectable corpse\n The Mummy as public attraction: Exhumed, examined and exhibited\nPart 2: The Mummy in literature, on stage and onthe silent screen\n Chapter 3: On the page and stage: The Mummy movie’s literary and theatrical influences\n The rediscovery of ancient Egypt: A pharaoh to remember\n The Mummy’s literary life: Electrifying tales!\n Romance and the Mummy: Amorous archaeologists and comely corpses\n Literature’s monstrous Mummies: Dread, despair and Doyle\n The empire strikes back: Stoker’s Au Revoir to the voyeur archaeologist\n Playing dead: The Mummy in the theatre\n Chapter 4: Preserved on film: The silent Mummy of early cinema\n Egypt and the cinema: Monoliths, mesmerism and Mummies\n The ‘Mummy Complex’ and the preservative nature of film\n The first on-screen Mummies: Short-lived moments of horror in the trick film\n Winding people up: Pretend Mummies and Mummy mix-ups in silent comedies\n Mummy dearest: The Mummy as romantic character\n Tomb raiders: Egypt and early horror\n Teutonic terrors: The first Mummy horror movies\n Grave danger: Tutmania, the curse and the death of the silent Mummy\nPart 3: Universal studiosand the Mummy of the1930s and 1940s\n Chapter 5: The Mummy (1932): Overcoming the silent treatment\n The Mummy: Art horror or production line horror?\n The delicate horror of The Mummy: A shudder not a shriek!\n A dichotomized damsel: A 1920s/1930s Eastern/Western woman\n A real lady-killer: The Mummy as Gothic romance\n The Mummy and the Nubian: Yellow peril and black brute\n Chapter 6: The 1940s Mummy film: A decade of decay\n The Mummy returns: The 1940s Mummy as cadaverous copy\n More than the sum of its parts: Innovation and the 1940s Mummy\n The Mummy’s Hand (1940): Reinventing the Mummy\n The Mummy’s Tomb (1942): A memorably murderous Mummy\n Lon Chaney Jr.: Cursing the Mummy!\n The Mummy in America: Fear and roaming in New England\n The Mummy’s Ghost (1944): Escaping bandaged bondage\n The Mummy’s Curse (1944): The female Mummy returns\n The demise and rise of the Mummy: To buffoon and back again\nPart 4: Hammer Film Productions and beyond:The Mummy of the1950s–present\n Chapter 7: Hammer’s resurrection of the Mummy: Sex and digs and wrap and roll\n Show me the Mummy: Realism with restraint in The Mummy\n Culture clash: The Mummy’s case and the aftermath of Suez\n Chapter 8: Wrapping up the Mummy: The last sixty years\nBibliography\nIndex