Roger Corman's Horror Movies
Description
This edited volume examines the films of Roger Corman, an indie filmmaker known for producing and directing hundreds of B-movies, discovering industry stars, anticipating Hollywood's New Wave, and founding a profitable empire that included New World Pictures and Concorde/New Horizons.
An interdisciplinary roster of contributors adopt a variety of approaches – including those grounded in philosophy, literary studies, film studies, gender studies, and history, among others – to explore Corman's ouevre of entertaining, literate, and campy genre films. Both well-known and understudied films will be analyzed and arranged thematically between focuses on form, content, and cultural considerations.
Table of Contents
Introduction: How Roger Corman Made His Films and Never Lost a Dime
Sue Matheson
Part I: Corman's Early "Grabbers"
1. Antagonistic Characters: Gothic Landscapes in the Films of Roger Corman
Stella Hockenhull
2. American Fears, Communist Crustaceans: Cold War Anxieties in Roger Corman's Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Amanda Riccitelli
3. Time Travel, Terror and Reel Regression in The Undead (1957) and The Beast with a Millions Eyes (1955)
Gary Forster
4. “We Would Observe the Future with Gay Confusion”: Mind-Games and Queer Temporality in Roger Corman's The Undead (1957)
Adam Hartman-Whitfield
5. Rethinking Beauty and Insolence in Roger Corman's Wasp Woman (1959)
Natasha Farrell
Part II: Other Veins to Mine
6. Roger Corman's Little Shop of Hybridities: Genre Mash-up and Resonant 'Horror'
Kerry Soper
7. Dark Humor, Carnival and Camp in Roger Corman's Horror Comedies
Sue Matheson
8. Progressive Democracy in The Intruder (1962), Day the World Ended (1955), It Conquered the World (1956) and Last Woman on Earth (1960)
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Emiliano Aguilar and Jorge Traversa
Part III: The Mortherlode-Corman's Poe Cycle
9. Roger Corman's Adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe: The Poe Cycle and Vincent Price
Fran Pheasant-Kelly
10. Medicine, Madness and Murder: Corman's Sinister Collaborations with Actor Ray Milland
Gillian Kelly
11. The Pleasure of Terror: The (Pathecolor) Sublime in The Premature Burial (1962) and X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1964)
Ethan Lyon
12. Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Brian Brems
13. Fragmented Authorship and the Creative Process of The Terror (1963)
Felipe M. Guerra
Part IV: Aftermath
14. “Absurd Horror”: Dark Humor, Ambiguity, and the Aesthetics of Dread in Roger Corman's Mashups
Peter Lederer
About the Contributors
Index
Sue Matheson
Part I: Corman's Early "Grabbers"
1. Antagonistic Characters: Gothic Landscapes in the Films of Roger Corman
Stella Hockenhull
2. American Fears, Communist Crustaceans: Cold War Anxieties in Roger Corman's Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Amanda Riccitelli
3. Time Travel, Terror and Reel Regression in The Undead (1957) and The Beast with a Millions Eyes (1955)
Gary Forster
4. “We Would Observe the Future with Gay Confusion”: Mind-Games and Queer Temporality in Roger Corman's The Undead (1957)
Adam Hartman-Whitfield
5. Rethinking Beauty and Insolence in Roger Corman's Wasp Woman (1959)
Natasha Farrell
Part II: Other Veins to Mine
6. Roger Corman's Little Shop of Hybridities: Genre Mash-up and Resonant 'Horror'
Kerry Soper
7. Dark Humor, Carnival and Camp in Roger Corman's Horror Comedies
Sue Matheson
8. Progressive Democracy in The Intruder (1962), Day the World Ended (1955), It Conquered the World (1956) and Last Woman on Earth (1960)
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Emiliano Aguilar and Jorge Traversa
Part III: The Mortherlode-Corman's Poe Cycle
9. Roger Corman's Adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe: The Poe Cycle and Vincent Price
Fran Pheasant-Kelly
10. Medicine, Madness and Murder: Corman's Sinister Collaborations with Actor Ray Milland
Gillian Kelly
11. The Pleasure of Terror: The (Pathecolor) Sublime in The Premature Burial (1962) and X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1964)
Ethan Lyon
12. Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Brian Brems
13. Fragmented Authorship and the Creative Process of The Terror (1963)
Felipe M. Guerra
Part IV: Aftermath
14. “Absurd Horror”: Dark Humor, Ambiguity, and the Aesthetics of Dread in Roger Corman's Mashups
Peter Lederer
About the Contributors
Index
Product details
| Published | 15 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9798216260936 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Series | Research in Horror Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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