“YOU THINK THIS IS COLD…” The Politics of the Land in NORTHERN PURSUIT (1943)
The harsh conditions of a frosty windswept Canadian wilderness are more than just a setting in...
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Tag: 1940s cinema
In Love With a Corpse: The Film Noir of Otto Preminger, Part 1
Born in Bukovina—a location familiar to Dracula fans—in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Otto...
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Death Meets Me Fast: Val Lewton’s Early Horror Films
I run to death, and death meets me as fast, And all my pleasures are like yesterday; I dare not...
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“Do you know that the world is a foul sty?” Shadow of a Doubt turns 75
This week marks the 75th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s slow burning, small town tale Shadow of...
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Gothic Film in the ‘40s: Domestic Terror and Supernatural Drama
In the first part of my examination of Gothic cinema in the ‘40s, I focused on romantic melodramas...
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Busted Guts: Cracking Open Comedy Cinema
