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Jean Lud Cadet,Karen Bolla,Ronald I. Herningnvolving the suggestion of emasculation, something that occurs in both in this film and in the little-seen . (directed by Fisher in 1959), another film which explicitly linked violence and torture with sexuality. A famous still from the film shows the actor Guy Rolfe spread-eagled on the ground, sta

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Stephen J. Heishman,Edward G. Singletoned houses of old and decadent families — may also function as representations of the female psyche. And given the reliance on inheritance and heirdom in the genre (in an era in which any power that women might accrue would be through the death or beneficence of a male relative), it is interesting ho

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Rob Middag,Rebecca Zitoun,Tim Conwaying applied to the field. But it should be noted that when the direction of so many films in the Gothic genre is dispiritingly pedestrian, aficionados are wont to leap upon the most evanescent fragment of inspiration and inventiveness, possibly praising these felicities more than they merit (perhaps

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,Bloody Revolution: The Worldwide Impact of Hammer’s Cottage Industry,Who could have foreseen that the burgeoning success of a tiny British film studio would effect seismic changes on the industry? Or that it would establish a hegemony that would flourish until big-budget US successes in the field (such as William Friedkin’s . in 1973) would hasten the progress of the death-watch beetle already at work in the studio?