The Mummy

The Mummy
Author: Doris V. Sutherland
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1800347286


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Released in 1932, The Mummy moved Universal horror into a land of deserts, pyramids, and long-lost tombs. This book examines the roots of The Mummy. It shows how the film shares many motifs with the work of writers such as H. Rider Haggard and discusses how The Mummy drew upon a contemporary vogue for all things ancient Egyptian.


The Mummy
Language: en
Pages: 123
Authors: Doris V. Sutherland
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-10 - Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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Released in 1932, The Mummy moved Universal horror into a land of deserts, pyramids, and long-lost tombs. This book examines the roots of The Mummy. It shows ho
Karloff and the East
Language: en
Pages: 485
Authors: Scott Allen Nollen
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-13 - Publisher: McFarland

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Among Golden Age Hollywood film stars of European heritage known for playing characters from the East--Chinese, Southeast Asians, Indians and Middle Easterners-
A Treasure Hard to Attain
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: David Howard Day
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press

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Covers the archaeological content of approximately 120 popular films, most of which have been produced in the United States since 1912. A unique feature is the
Karl Freund
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Gavin Schmitt
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-14 - Publisher: McFarland

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Karl Freund is the most important film pioneer you've never heard of. From the silent film era to the rise of the American sitcom, Freund was there at every tur
The Mummy in Fact, Fiction and Film
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Susan D. Cowie
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-09 - Publisher: McFarland

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In 1922, when Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen, much of what was then known about mummies came from the writing of Greek hist