American Gothic

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This is the story of the Hollywood horror film from its 19th century beginnings through to the arrival of Vincent Price as a horror star in the mid-1950s.This 60-year period encompasses the shadowy nightmares of the silent era, the breakthrough hits produced by Universal in the early days of the talkies, the lurid melodrams released by competitors like Warner Bros. and MGM, the cerebral RKO chillers of the 1940s, and the science-fiction schockers of the 1950s. Author of the acclaimed English Gothic, Jonathan Rigby has written another engrossing chronicle of one of cinema's most enduring genres.