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Icons of grief : Val Lewton's home front pictures by Alexander Nemerov (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This beautifully written study looks at the haunting, melancholy horror films Val Lewton made between 1942 and 1946 and finds them to be powerful commentaries on the American home front during World War II. Alexander Nemerov focuses on the iconic, isolated figures who appear in four of Lewton's small-budget classics—__The Curse of the Cat People, The Ghost Ship, I Walked with a Zombie,__ and __Bedlam.__ These ghosts, outcasts, and other apparitions of sorrow crystallize the anxiety and grief experienced by Americans during the war, emotions decidedly at odds with the official insistence on courage, patriotism, and optimism. In an evocative meditation on Lewton's use of these "icons of grief," Nemerov demonstrates the film-maker's interest in those who found themselves alienated by wartime society and illuminates the dark side of the American psyche in the 1940s. Nemerov's rich study draws from Lewton's letters, novels, and scripts and from a wealth of historical material to shed light on both the visual and literary aspects of the filmmaker's work. Lavishly illustrated with more than fifty photographs, including many rare film stills, __Icons of Grief__ recasts Lewton's horror film

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Author

Alexander Nemerov (editor)

Publisher

Calif. ; University of California Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520937765

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.56 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14