The television horrors of Dan Curtis : Dark shadows, The night stalker and other productions / Jeff Thompson ; foreword by Jim Pierson ; afterword by Ansel Faraj.

Author
Thompson, Jeff, 1958- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Second edition.
Published/​Created
  • Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
  • ©2019
Description
vii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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    Summary note
    "Before award-winning director Dan Curtis became known for directing epic war movies, he darkened the small screen with the horror genre's most famous soap opera, Dark Shadows, and numerous subsequent made-for-TV horror movies. This second edition serves as a complete filmography, featuring each of Curtis' four-dozen productions and 100 photographs. With the addition of new chapters on Dark Shadows, the author further explores the groundbreaking daytime television serial. Fans and scholars alike will find an exhaustive account of Curtis' work, as well as a new foreword from My Music producer Jim Pierson and an afterword from Dr. Mabuse director Ansel Faraj-- Provided by publisher.
    Notes
    First edition published 2009.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-256) and index.
    Contents
    • Foreword: The Fearless Master by Jim Pierson
    • Preface and Acknowledgments: Life from a Coffin
    • Introduction: Dan Curtis and Television Horror
    • The Career of Dan Curtis: An Overview
    • Curtis’s Dream: Dark Shadows
    • Big-Screen Shadows: House of Dark Shadows (1970), Night of Dark Shadows (1971) and Dark Shadows (2012)
    • Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisedon
    • Curtis and the Classics: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, and The Turn of the Screw
    • The Kolchak Papers: The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler
    • In the Night Stalker Vein: The Norliss Tapes and Scream of the Wolf
    • A Trilogy of Trilogies of Terror: Trilogy of Terror, Dead of Night, and Trilogy of Terror II
    • Curtis’s Pre-War Farewell to Horror: Burnt Offerings and Curse of the Black Widow
    • Intruders: They Are Among Us
    • Lost in the Shadows: Productions That Never Were
    • Master of Dark Shadows: The Dan Curtis Documentary
    • Conclusion: Dan Curtis and Television Horror and Drama
    • Afterword: The Fearless Pioneer by Ansel H. Faraj.
    ISBN
    • 9781476675022 ((print))
    • 1476675023 ((print))
    LCCN
    2019025319
    OCLC
    1104907434
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